Type Inference can do a lot. See http://doctorjs.org/.
We do not want people adding guards all over their code, IMHO. Anyway, we don't know have guards ES6. Disclosure: I'm an ajax.org (http://c9.io/) advisor. /be On Sep 11, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Axel Rauschmayer wrote: > One thing I liked about the Dash/Dart email was that it explicitly stated the > goal of tool/IDE support (this is the only area where I miss Java when > programming JavaScript). Is there something corresponding among the Harmony > goals [1]? (5) Support a statically verifiable, object-capability secure > subset(?) > > For IDE-support we already have class literals in ES.next. What is still > missing? Type guards? Will those make it into ES.next? > > I find that there is a lot of cool stuff going into ES.next which will make > it highly competitive with whatever Google can possibly come up with. > However, a good Dart IDE can do much to increase Dart’s appeal. On the other > hand, the market for a good JavaScript IDE is large (as in “unfragmented”) > and only becoming larger, so maybe we’ll eventually get there. > > [1] http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:harmony > > -- > Dr. Axel Rauschmayer > > [email protected] > twitter.com/rauschma > > home: rauschma.de > blog: 2ality.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
