If people are unable to internalize the whole language, then surely we need a way to remove cruft and idiosyncracies in it, lest the language stagnate beyond repair.
Removing var, typeof, exotic objects, function declarations, IsNaN, ==, enumerable properties, are just a few examples of things we should not be frightened to talk about. While I don't personally see a need for the proposed let syntax, I think that concerns about the language growing uncontrollably should be directed at its apparent lack of deprecation strategy, rather than shutting down discussion of new ideas that might help us write better programs. Just my 2p. On Thursday, June 18, 2015, Allen Wirfs-Brock <al...@wirfs-brock.com> wrote: > > On Jun 18, 2015, at 12:18 PM, Andreas Rossberg wrote: > > On 18 June 2015 at 19:26, Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjami...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','benjami...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> This is a mailing list comprised of people who typically have a much >> better understanding of the language and its corners than most (even >> professional) developers have (and dare I say, are interested in or care >> about having). With ES6 the language already got a *lot* bigger and I'd >> argue that it's now harder to learn the whole. The tradeoffs were >> worthwhile but it's definitely an issue. >> > > I dare say that at this point Allen probably is the only person in the > world who actually fully knows and understands the complete language. I > won't hesitate to admit that I don't. ;) > > > And I occasionally have to go and look up details. > > Allen > >
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