Adding features in *no way* sacrifices simplicity or ease-of-use for smaller web projects; as has been said many times on this list, if you don't like any new feature, simply choose not to use it.
On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 6:21 AM, Pier Bover <pierbove...@gmail.com> wrote: > I doubt there is a long term grand vision for JS. After all the focus is > on small incremental changes. > > Personally I'd love to see optional static typings implement into the > language much like we had in ES4 but I feel it's too big of a change to be > considered by TC39. > > My hope now is on completely being able to replace JS by Web Assembly in a > couple of years and write on whatever language I prefer. > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2017, 3:42 AM kai zhu <kaizhu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> i'm generally curious what the overall vision is for those who want >> continued aggressive evolution of the javascript-language. is it to >> transform javascript into a class-based language similar to c#? >> >> also, is another part of the vision to add features to javascript to >> solve special engineering-problems encountered by large companies like >> google/facebook/microsoft as a trade-off to simplicity and ease-of-use for >> smaller web-projects? >> >> On Nov 29, 2017 02:45, "T.J. Crowder" <tj.crow...@farsightsoftware.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Isiah Meadows <isiahmead...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head here. >>> > Probably best if we can just let this thread die now. >>> >>> Thirded. ;-) >>> >>> -- T.J. Crowder >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> es-discuss mailing list >>> es-discuss@mozilla.org >>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> es-discuss@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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