Filip Pizlo wrote:
Hi Brandon, Thanks for writing this up! My personal feeling is that I’d rather ES not have static typing of this form. I believe it makes the language substantially more complex, and to me it feels best to try to minimize the growth of the language in order to ensure that those things that we do add are added in a compatible and sound way. Also, I wonder if static typing wouldn’t work out better if instead of extending ES, you found a way to instead make wasm (https://www.w3.org/community/webassembly/) powerful enough to handle the language that you want. The benefit of that route is that (1) there
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is already support behind wasm and what I see as a broad desire to enable wasm to handle statically-typed object-oriented/functional languages, and (2) it’s a clean slate, so a proposal doesn’t have to worry about the compatibility issues.
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