On 03 Jun 2014, at 14:54, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote: > On 6/3/14, 8:39 AM, Mike de Boer wrote: >> I think it helps provide a common, immediate understanding for new >> contributors who’d like to write test for the code they contribute, as the >> add-on SDK and the NodeJS community already use it exclusively. > > I think there's a bit of functional area bias here, fwiw. I've seen very few > (if any) Gecko contributors coming from either of those communities, for > example.
Yes, I’m biased there I think. I hope that will change in the (near) future. Right now, the main area for NodeJS enthusiasts at Mozilla to go to is Services. <following is slightly off-topic> I want Firefox frontend development to be more mainstream, or at least be able to move faster and experiment more with JS development trends. (Note that Assert.jsm is not about a trend, it’s quite past that and several years old already). Indeed, I’m used to the NodeJS/ Mocha flow of writing tests as fast, or even faster, as writing the implementation of a feature. I could group tests, isolate one, hook in a debugger at any point and more. This is something I miss while working on Fx and to be honest: I still crave for more than a year later. Writing wrappers in python around things to improve the current situation like a band-aid isn’t the way I’m used to fix things; I like to take the bull by the horns[1] I’d like to ask _why_ structured logging needs to be bolted on top of what we have currently? Is it more work to fix the real problem? Are we less comfortable doing things in JS? We all want the same thing, I’m pretty sure of that. I’m just asking difficult questions to understand the decision of the direction we’re taking. Mike. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=867742 > > -Boris > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
