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I think he missed mentioning the new lambda syntax. Hope it's still in ES6. Also, my pet peeve: there is no language that needs await/defer as much as JS. EDI
by jeswin 14y ago
I think he missed mentioning the new lambda syntax. Hope it's still in ES6.
Also, my pet peeve: there is no language that needs await/defer as much as JS.
EDIT: Maybe it could be done with macros, which is on its way.
- masklinn 14y ago> there is no language that needs await/defer as much as JS. http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:generators http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:generators is a more general abstraction, which allows expressing async/await-type constructs: http://taskjs.org/ http://taskjs.org/
- BrendanEich 14y agoI skipped arrow function syntax (=> only in ES6). It was a bit much and I wanted to focus on APIs and compilation.