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Lets you know what's happening on the es-discuss mailing list, where people discuss the future of JavaScript. By @domenic.
Joined September 2012
The proposal for RegExp lookbehind has attained a new champion, and discussions of Perl5 vs. NET style are underway
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A proposal for additional Math functions causes discussions of potential implementations and alternatives
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A reminder that promises aren't only about asynchronicity
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On the dangers of cache timing attacks, which would be possible in ES if the shared memory proposal succeeds:
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Ideas for handling out of memory issues, e.g. aborting or throwing an exception
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A new proposal for exponentiation operator precedence:
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Function names and stack traces for functions created at runtime
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More discussion of template strings vs. template languages
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A discussion of object ID or hash codes, although it's noted that weak map suffices for many use cases
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A proposal for C#'s nameof operator would interact interestingly with minifiers
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A response to a two-year-old thread on a memory safety attack using weak references
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A discussion of weak references and post-mortem finalization vs. pre-mortem finalization for a specific use case
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Debate about whether the global lexical tier design was good: (re: using let/etc. in the top level scope).
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Disagreement about the correct precedence of the exponentiation operator became pretty heated
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A bug where strict mode does not correctly throw a ReferenceError when assigning to a deleted global variable
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A discussion of different possible techniques for introducing directed rounded primitives to the language
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The informative algorithm for [[Enumerate]] is buggy:
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Some questions about object property enumeration order
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A proposal to specify System.import() for imperative module importing. Questions about interaction with the loader.
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