On 26 July 2017 at 17:38, Brendan Eich <brendan.e...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Andreas, is this the best link to the Strong Mode post-mortem? > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/strengthen-js/ojj3TDxbHpQ/5ENNAiUzEgAJ > Yup. On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 2:56 AM Andreas Rossberg <rossb...@google.com> > wrote: > >> As for the reoccurring assumption that deprecation would help simplifying >> JavaScript implementations: no, not to a relevant degree. 80+% of the >> complexity in a JS VM comes from the plethora of (sometimes ridiculous) >> edge cases in the core semantics of JavaScript, its object model, implicit >> conversions, etc., and the desire to make all that fast in the common case >> without breaking correctness of the million special cases. None of that can >> be deprecated without creating a completely new language. >> >> And clearly, modes or versions only make things worse in that regard. >> Strict mode already is a pig when it comes to implementation complexity (in >> retrospect, it does not carry its weight IMHO). ES6 made it worse. Our >> experiments with strong mode a while ago increased complexity even further, >> so much that the urge to rip it out again overtook very quickly. I for one >> am eternally healed of modes. >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> es-discuss@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> >
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