Hi Kris,
Le 17/06/2016 06:44, Kris Siegel a écrit :
I didn't see this in the archives but I was curious if any
consideration has been given for standardizing on features more
commonly found in most other language's standard library.
For example reading and writing to sockets in JavaScript requires
platform specific libraries and works very differently between them.
The same goes for file io (which would obviously need restrictions
when run in, say, a web browser).
Building these in would make JavaScript more universal and easier to
learn (you learn one way to access a resource instead of 2 or 3 very
different ways).
I would be happy to work on a proposal for such changes if they were
desired by the community. Thoughts?
I understand your motivation, but I believe standardisation isn't the
right avenue for the problem you describe to be solved.
Specifically, even if there was a standard why would Node or browser
makers implement it given they already have an API for the job and lots
of code is already written on top of these APIs?
Writing a standard is not a guarantee for implementation. Implementing
something is lots of work for browser vendors and Node.js (and they're
not in shortage of things to do), so they usually need some confidence
that the new thing adds enough value to be worth the cost.
One way to convey such confidence can be to start the work, implement it
as a library on top of current APIs, show that there is adoption by lots
of people. Adoption is usually is an excellent proxy for value. That's
how we got document.querySelectorAll (via jQuery) and Promise (via the
gazillion promise libraries and Promise/A+ spec) for instance.
In this case, from experience reading proposals on standards
mailing-list come and go, I doubt this will be of interest to enough
people to be worth it. But that's just my own opinion and I would love
to be proven wrong.
One more thing to regret, maybe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eNFQqMSxtU
David
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