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You're right, it's not possible to eliminate the need for testing/fixes. I didn't say it was. It's a tradeoff; compiling to a stable older set of features reduces bugs but doesn't eliminate them.

Part of the work has to be on the developer. There are certain properties that will screw up positioning when used with flex elements in IE, for example, and knowing what those are and how to avoid those combinations is part of the cost of skillfully using flexbox. The compiler can't always do the work, but we should let it do as much as it can.




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