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and why stop there? Introduce lazy evaluation, type classes, custom operator overloading and what not... I'm jesting of course, I find JavaScript already too c

• dtech 5y ago
  I'm mainly puzzled why they want to introduce additional syntax specific for it, when higher order function are perfectly possible in the current language already and integrate well with the F#-style pipe.
• abecedarius 5y ago
  Very reasonable, and that's why I phrased it like "if we do this". A TC39 member on this topic of restraint and priorities: https://erights.medium.com/the-tragedy-of-the-common-lisp-why-large-languages-explode-4e83096239b9 https://erights.medium.com/the-tragedy-of-the-common-lisp-wh...
• nsonha 5y ago
  > I find JavaScript already too complicated I get that you don't want it *to become* complicated, but as it currently is, JavaScript is still a rather simple language.