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There is this widely held believe that ESM will no longer enable you to load
modules at runtime and therefore we can't switch, because with require() you can
do:
const name = 'awesome' const module = require(my- + name)
and require will load my-awesome.js as a module.
However your code that does this is most likely a shorthand switch statement:
let module switch(name) { case 'awesome': module = require('my-awesome') }
Because you do not really want to load an arbitrary module, but one that is very
much already known.
You know which modules are "dynamically" loaded, so you can convert logic like
this at compile time to a static import construct as shown above, by iterating
over all your possible imports and generating the module loader.
That way you can use import with "dynamic" modules.