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My kingdom for "everything is an expression" in JS/TS, but that would likely require an entirely new language.

by 8f2ab37a-ed6c 4y ago

davedx 4y ago
At some point you might as well just use lisp, right? :D
- eyelidlessness 4y ago
  I love me some lisp, but I definitely prefer my JS-hosted code to be as close to JS language and semantics as possible (and that’s after a few years working in ClojureScript). Then again I’m commenting in a thread about an article with CoffeeScript in the title so I’m probably the weird one here.
  - slifin 4y ago
    Have you considered https://github.com/squint-cljs/squint https://github.com/squint-cljs/squint ? Personally I couldn't let go of Clojure's other advantages but at least using the syntax would let you step off the syntax churn bus
    - eyelidlessness 4y ago
      No, unfortunately the greener pastures I found have type annotations. I miss the parentheses like hell, and I miss the actual state semantics of Clojure even more. But I wouldn’t give up static types for any of that. If I explore lisps again I’m going to start with Typed Racket.
eyelidlessness 4y ago
If you’re willing to accept a little bit of extra syntax/ceremony, the `do` expressions proposal[1] is pretty much this (but it’s only stage 1 so who knows when/if it’ll land). 1: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-do-expressions https://github.com/tc39/proposal-do-expressions
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 4y ago
  Nice! Wasn't aware of that at all.
- Yahivin 4y ago
  We often add promising TC39 proposals into Civet so people can experiment without waiting. We've added https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator, a variant of https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching, a variant of https://github.com/tc39/proposal-string-dedent https://github.com/tc39/proposal-string-dedent and others. Since our goal is to be 99% compatible with ES we'll need to accommodate any proposals that become standard and pick up anything TC39 leaves on the table (rest parameters in any position, etc.)
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My kingdom for "everything is an expression" in JS/TS, but that would likely require an entirely new language.

davedx 4y ago

At some point you might as well just use lisp, right? :D

eyelidlessness 4y ago
I love me some lisp, but I definitely prefer my JS-hosted code to be as close to JS language and semantics as possible (and that’s after a few years working in ClojureScript). Then again I’m commenting in a thread about an article with CoffeeScript in the title so I’m probably the weird one here.
- slifin 4y ago
  Have you considered https://github.com/squint-cljs/squint https://github.com/squint-cljs/squint ? Personally I couldn't let go of Clojure's other advantages but at least using the syntax would let you step off the syntax churn bus
  - eyelidlessness 4y ago
    No, unfortunately the greener pastures I found have type annotations. I miss the parentheses like hell, and I miss the actual state semantics of Clojure even more. But I wouldn’t give up static types for any of that. If I explore lisps again I’m going to start with Typed Racket.

eyelidlessness 4y ago

If you’re willing to accept a little bit of extra syntax/ceremony, the `do` expressions proposal[1] is pretty much this (but it’s only stage 1 so who knows when/if it’ll land). 1: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-do-expressions https://github.com/tc39/proposal-do-expressions

8f2ab37a-ed6c 4y ago
Nice! Wasn't aware of that at all.
Yahivin 4y ago
We often add promising TC39 proposals into Civet so people can experiment without waiting. We've added https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator, a variant of https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching, a variant of https://github.com/tc39/proposal-string-dedent https://github.com/tc39/proposal-string-dedent and others. Since our goal is to be 99% compatible with ES we'll need to accommodate any proposals that become standard and pick up anything TC39 leaves on the table (rest parameters in any position, etc.)
- deleted 4y ago
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