I read that and still not convinced this is good for the web or developers.
Code will migrate to ES6, specially the one still maintained, and I am personally against unmaintained code used in new projects ... so we simply disagree in this basic concept: you believe that broken unmaintained library from 2000 should work in ES6, I believe that such code should not interfere with the future of the language specially after the language decided to "break up" with its past (syntax) ... this looks like a "one way toxic relationship" to me, metaphorically speaking, a situation where only old code can benefit from instead of new comers and/or the future of the language itself. Once again, my 2 cents ... we had a chance to make it better all over, we decided that old code should compromise the spec instead ... it's like still supporting IE6 when nobody would spend a second to fix IE6 instead, look how good that has been for the Web history. Best Regards On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > Andrea Giammarchi wrote: > >> "Many times", and still does not make sense to me. >> >> CoffeeScript and TypeScript added new things and solved others while new >> ES6 syntax is simply broken not only in ES3 but in ES5 too and requires >> same technique (transpiler) others used to solve many other gotchas too. >> > > Rehashing, I addressed this explicitly in words you bottom-cited. > > In your proposed alternative, as in ES6, a compiler is needed to target > old browsers. No difference. > > > Why "we" demand the web to transpile **but** "we" don't solve problems >> known since 1999 is still a mystery to me ... specially every time you end >> your replies writing `1JS` ... in my opinion a meaningless utopia the >> moment TC39 decided to break backward compatibility. >> > > You can't "solve the problems known since 1999". You again ignored what I > wrote about "old code enduring, and intersection-compatible "any version" > code likely predominating". > > Please read before you reply. > > /be >
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