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messageformat is Working Hard to Make Themselves Obsolete

messageformat is an OpenJS Foundation project that handles both pluralization and gender in applications. It helps keep messages in human-friendly formats, and can be the basis for tone and accuracy that are critical for applications.

Perhaps the biggest problem is that while ICU MessageFormat is the closest we have to a standard, that doesn’t mean it is in standard use by everyone.

The biggest challenge is that when you have some kind of interface and you want to present some messages in that interface, there isn’t one clear solution that’s always the right one for you.

Whatever your problem or issue is, it is highly likely that you will find someone else has already solved your problem for you, you just need to figure out how to adapt their solution to your exact problem.