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If you like rsync and javascript, I wrote https://github.com/claytongulick/bit-sync which is kinda fun.

Fancy!

There are a lot of reasons, honestly, and it's great beer conversation, but from a high level: producing a concrete instance that invokes a constructor function with a shiny pristi…

While it hasn't changed their minds, I do see the authors of the proposal actively discussing and engaging with the community. That's better than nothing, I suppose.

I remember when Crockford released the fantastic book, JavaScript The Good Parts. I disagreed with some of his opinions in that book, like avoiding the use of 'new', but that book …

Until wasm has GC, we're not likely to see much in the way of compile-to-web outside of C, C++, or Rust.

> So why complain? So it is your opinion that the community and users shouldn't give feedback on the design and direction of the language they use every day? That's an interesting …

Yeah, I've only been doing OOP for about 22 years, so I'm pretty new to it. The point was that the syntactic sugar isn't needed. The 'class' sugar actually obscures the power of pr…

Don't we already have solutions (closures/WeakMap) for hard encapsulation? Seems like '#' just pollutes the language and isn't really needed.

I think the concern is that if you look here: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-private-fields/issues/14 and other places, you'll see this massive push back from the community, yet …

Agreed. We already had solutions for inheritance, etc... using prototypes, which are more powerful than classic OOP. Now we're in sort of a mess hybrid thing where issues like this…