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I was poking at the non-standard portion. Lowering barrier to development of plugins, patches, etc is fine, but being standard doesn't help or hinder that. Popu

by emidln 11y ago

I was poking at the non-standard portion. Lowering barrier to development of plugins, patches, etc is fine, but being standard doesn't help or hinder that. Popularity and ease of introduction help that. Javascript (that is, the dialect of ECMAScript that is implemented by Firefox) itself is non-standard and Mozilla isn't throwing that one out for exclusively ES2015.

pcwalton 11y ago
Actually, tons of nonstandard SpiderMonkey features have been removed. Sharp literals were axed, E4X was removed, "let" is being changed to the ES6 behavior, and so on.
gsnedders 11y ago
FWIW, there are real intentions to standardise all the JS extensions or drop them.