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Plucking a single comment entirely out of context and presenting it as damning evidence against an entire company's competency feels kind of over the top.
by untog 6y ago
Plucking a single comment entirely out of context and presenting it as damning evidence against an entire company's competency feels kind of over the top.
- jansan 6y agoThe context is that Firefox is not supporting essential OOP features (like private fields) in Javascript, which Chrome has been supporting since April 2019. In the past, Firefox had a lot of experimental features and was often the first browser to support new stuff. This has changed, Firefox is now behind in quite a few areas and if you look at their priorities, management doesn't really seem to care.
- untog 6y ago> The context is that Firefox is not supporting essential OOP features (like private fields) I'd dispute private fields being "essential". People have been writing a lot of OOP code in JavaScript without them for a long time now.