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> yeet is a bikeshed-avoidance name for throw/fail/raise/etc, used because it definitely won't be the final keyword. …and JavaScript will never be used for mor

• dathinab 4y ago
  You can't be sure how people will abuse. You can be sure this is not the final keyword. 1. It's only in nightly and needs a feature gate to be enabled, as such accidental usage is impossible and it's not usable at all for most projects (which require stable compatibility). 2. It will be removed in the future there is absolutely no stability guarantees for nightly unstable features, they might literally be gone in the next hour. If you abuse it no one care that you project brakes, the ecosystem knows that and as such stays away from nightly features outside of experimenting (and some unusual target support, like recompiling std with different options for using threads in WASM). Or in other words it's a very very different situation then unstable JS features which always where a mess you easily could accidentally use and in practice (CSS prefix) had to use all the time. Any feature gated nightly unstable things is better seen as an experimental fork of the compiler which is slightly easier to use then an actual fork.
  • __ryan__ 4y ago
    Yes, I’m mostly teasing. That said, you can’t guarantee that “yeet” won’t grow on the community though :-)