On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <pidgeo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/16/2017 5:29 PM, Dave Townsend wrote: > >> 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/Refe >> rence/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? >> > > Is it possible to make those scripts public so as to be able to run them > on comm-central? They aren't written yet but once they are they will definitely be available. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
