> I would like to note that JavaScript is already starting to > feel a bit large, and we should definitely take greater care on > realizing the added complexity of new language features
my personal opinion is that es6 was a net-negative creating chaos in the world of frontend-development (making virtually everything more difficult and complicated and buggier) that will haunt us for years to come. javascript is NOT a general-purpose language, if trying to make it so comes at the cost of breaking the world-wide-web. > On Jul 18, 2017, at 9:48 AM, Mike Samuel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 7:24 AM, Isiah Meadows <[email protected]> wrote: >> realizing the added complexity of new language features, applying a >> much higher bar than this. [4] >> >> (If you really want features like those, check out Sweet.js, or maybe >> write an Acorn plugin or a Babylon/Esprima fork.) > > +1 > >> [1]: https://esdiscuss.org/topic/functional-operators >> [2]: https://esdiscuss.org/topic/quoted-map-keys-was-re-json5 > > I'm against the JSON5/JSON6/TOML proposal because I think it's > premature, but I don't think it should be rejected for being an extra > syntax proposal in the sense that it doesn't change the result of > parsing a script, module, or expression (modulo ch. 16 early errors). > It's an extra builtin proposal. > _______________________________________________ > 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
