For a long time now we've been writing JS code that waits for promises using Task.jsm and generator functions. Recently though the JS team added support for the JS standard way of doing this, async/await: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/async_function
Writing code in standard JS is always better for the web, makes it easier to onboard new engineers and allows for better support in developer tools. So I'd like to propose that we switch to the standard way of writing these functions immediately. New code should use async/await instead of Task.jsm going forwards. Florian has some rough plans to automatically rewrite existing usages of Task.jsm to the standard JS forms so for now don't worry much about going and submitting patches to fix up existing code. Once that is done we can remove Task.jsm from the tree. Does anyone object to any of this? _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
