Lots of good thoughts and discussions here, and while it’s gone slightly off topic I’d love to discuss the possibilities of how we could get JavaScript to a point where we could actively remove features with every new specification.
I’m sure nobody would want to break the web, which would be very likely removing any parts of JavaScript, and certainly the biggest challenge, it does seem a shame that we can’t find an ulterior direction as it does seem allowing various features we consider bad practice today to still exist and the overhead that exists with them certainly hinders progress more than it helps. Linting is certainly the fastest and easiest method, but to a certain extent I not really a solution in that we only lint our own code, and not the additional code that we rely upon. Ideally removal of features should mean more performance out of JavaScript, if engines have less constructs to deal with then there should be some beneficial performance related with that? Given the lack of control over what browsers many users are using perhaps versioning could be a new semantic built into the language itself in the same way we have strict mode? We could allow developers the option to specify the version they wish to use, avoiding unnecessary transpiration back to ES5 for applications confident enough to give their users the choice to upgrade if needed but also allow browsers to only run based on versions? I'm sure it’s worth considering as removing features of a language / application is as important, if not more so, than adding features to a language or application. David _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
