On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Isiah Meadows <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree. The only people who really have a stake in this discussion apart > from committee members are implementors, and trust me: they really don't > like having to support features deprecated for over a decade.
I am not an implementor, but I would like to restake my claim as a security practitioner that I made in https://esdiscuss.org/topic/removal-of-language-features#content-7 > My only question at this point is: would it be possible to emit deprecation > warnings for some features, so it would be easier to remove some of the > legacy bloat? (example: `RegExp.$1`) Linters were mentioned earlier as a mechanism for this. The problem, as Brendan pointed out, is that you have to get the usage rate very low or have browsers coordinate closely on breaking the holdouts. _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
