On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 02:50, Brian LeRoux <[email protected]> wrote: > So in short, CommonJS gives us: > > - better performance > - better aesthetics > - closer to the future >
+1 on all that > +1 for AMD > um, what? :-) Seems pretty clear that we will have to easily tolerate AMD - I'm sure IBM folk will be using Dojo, which uses AMD-style loading. While we could try what Node did for a couple weeks - implement a define() function - this doesn't seem feasible as the API surface for define() is quite large; eg, requireJS and Dojo both support "plugins" somehow. But requireJS has some kind of shim they can use to run in Node, and I suspect we would want to aim for that shim also working with us. Not clear to me if Dojo has a similiar shim (dunno, but doubt they could share requireJS's shim). Another nice things about using CommonJS/node style modules is that consuming existing npm modules is a snap. I've found this to be true for some personal projects I've worked on, using modjewel, the CommonJS-styled loader I use for weinre. -- Patrick Mueller http://muellerware.org
