There is a hidden agenda here: The engine is somewhat up to the gills with feature flags, and I'm planning on adding more. Say, for instance, array indexes being individually definable and the existence of holes? That whole can of worms makes JS Arrays a pain to implement in a performant fashion. Worse yet, it's a feature that is basically never used: No one wants holes in their Array and no one wants getters or setters in them either.
So, say you have a nice flag to turn the feature off: You turn it off and test your code; nothing breaks and the engine thanks you by running faster. Nice! So you leave it off. A few years down the line you start to wonder: Why didn't we do this from the get go? And maybe, just maybe, this will push the ecosystem and the language itself towards sanity. We cannot break the Internet, but we sure as hell can break a bunch of old NPM libraries that no one uses anymore.
Be the change you want to see, and all that. Though, if the change you want to see is for JavaScript to die then... Well, then this definitely isn't the revolution for you :D
Why not make future pages better instead of old existing pages better?
Why not improve the browsers or web assembly or dom or anything that hasn't changed in 20 years?
There is a hidden agenda here: The engine is somewhat up to the gills with feature flags, and I'm planning on adding more. Say, for instance, array indexes being individually definable and the existence of holes? That whole can of worms makes JS Arrays a pain to implement in a performant fashion. Worse yet, it's a feature that is basically never used: No one wants holes in their Array and no one wants getters or setters in them either.
So, say you have a nice flag to turn the feature off: You turn it off and test your code; nothing breaks and the engine thanks you by running faster. Nice! So you leave it off. A few years down the line you start to wonder: Why didn't we do this from the get go? And maybe, just maybe, this will push the ecosystem and the language itself towards sanity. We cannot break the Internet, but we sure as hell can break a bunch of old NPM libraries that no one uses anymore.
Be the change you want to see, and all that. Though, if the change you want to see is for JavaScript to die then... Well, then this definitely isn't the revolution for you :D
Please share your plan for how to make millions of existing web pages better.
Why not make future pages better instead of old existing pages better? Why not improve the browsers or web assembly or dom or anything that hasn't changed in 20 years?
> Why not make future pages better instead of old existing pages better?
Existing pages already exist and people use them.
Changing them puts the cost on thousands of other organizations over which you have no control, and likely very little influence.