On 7/26/17 at 3:18 PM, [email protected] (Brendan Eich) wrote:
If you are concerned about JS pedagogy or marketing, the solution already
practiced is to subset. Just as when teaching English or another evolved,
irregularity-ridden living language.
The real problem with bloat is reading code, not writing it.
However, if a reader can easily look up a nearly abandoned, but
still supported, construct to find out what it does and what
footguns it includes, that situation is probably better than
having some unmaintained web site fail when a new version of a
browser comes out that no longer supports that construct.
YMMV - Bill
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