Maybe with modification. I currently feel workers are a bit heavy (with
their event driven nature), and they most definitely don't follow the
idioms of the modern JavaScript language (very promise heavy).

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016, 02:11 Park Hyeonu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Now we're about to standardize thread-shared memory for EcmaScript(
> https://github.com/tc39/ecmascript_sharedmem). But how about the thread
> itself?
>
> For this topic, I don't think we should develop another thread spec for ES
> as we already have a nice one - WebWorker. This spec allows multithreading
> in web client and it's well-adopted on most modern browsers. So all we need
> to do is just care some web-specific points of the api. Fortunately it's
> already `new Worker()` not `new WebWorker()` and not so many points should
> be fixed for it.
>
> For the case to import web spec to ES spec, there's already a case like
> this - Typed Array. It's originally standardized in Chronos group as a part
> of WebGL spec, and adopted to ES later.
>
> The spec I'm mentioning here is html5 apis including WebWorker,
> MessageChannel, Structured Clone Algorithm, Transferable Object.
>
> Sounds nice, isn't it?
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