http://www.2ality.com/2012/12/es6-workflow.html
I would really like to see a shared resource collecting ES6 shims
and techniques.
Since this involves checking those shims against the evolving
spec, it would be good to have this as a wiki page moderated
by tc39 (otherwise we'll keep seeing new blog posts showing
how to use old specs).
Then transpilation ideas could be shared and reused, but also
be whittled down and improved.
For instance, traceur maps let to try/throw/catch, which is clever
for a prototype, but not practical for production use (defeating
optimizers). TypeScript maps arrow functions to a 'that=this'
pattern, which is clever, but would be rather complicated to get
right, and TypeScript doesn't (better to use .bind, and shim that
for ES3). Mapping let to IIFE is simple, but needs refinement for
'this'/'arguments'/.. . And so on, and so on.
Claus
Smaller notes on the blog post
- harmonizr != modernizr (url typo)
- for transpilers, feel free to link to
http://clausreinke.github.com/js-tools/resources.html#group:language-extensions
- it is good to see the TypeScript project holding their ES6+types
position against all those .net folks who want to change it into
something else; if that wall was ever breached, TS would hold
the same disadvantages as CS
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