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I think that now that Edge is moving to Chromium, they can just push whatever shitty syntax they want and Firefox will be forced to follow suit. I wouldn't be

I think that now that Edge is moving to Chromium, they can just push whatever shitty syntax they want and Firefox will be forced to follow suit. I wouldn't be surprised if this here is them giving that dominance a first shot. I'm sure they realize that developers will think it's horrible, but at the same time it's also not a problem. Nothing will break because of this, no company will be disadvantaged by it (barring Mozilla ofc). Perfect opportunity for testing the waters of a newly obtained monopoly position.

johncolanduoni 8y ago
I would be very surprised if a proposal that's at least over a year old (first commit in the GitHub repo was May 14, 2017) was part of some master plan for Google to test their dominance after Microsoft recently decided to kill Chakra. Ignoring timing, it's a pretty terrible way to test their monopoly position since it's obviously not going to help Google's business unless they plan to start manufacturing the "3" key on JavaScript developer keyboards. Why would Mozilla possibly spend the effort push back on this? TC39 comes up with things that are controversial (on GitHub issues at least) all the time.