V8 developers start working on ES6 generators for JavaScript • Hacker News Board

Re: V8 developers start working on ES6 generators for JavaScript

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Post by jlongster » Fri, Mar 29, 2013, 3:40 AM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #28

recuter wrote: post #19

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JS next seems almost as if they turned Javascript into Python. I am pleased.

I am pleased too, but unfortunately it seems like they turned it into Python 3. That is: not a stable, cross platform, version on the horizon yet --not even excluding IE--, and we're in for a long wait.

Not at all. We are seeing an extremely rapid adoption of ES6 features and the standard is going to be completely finalized this year (or early next year), meaning browsers don't really have a choice but to implement it.

Re: V8 developers start working on ES6 generators for JavaScript

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Post by lucian1900 » Fri, Mar 29, 2013, 12:09 PM UTC

_jmar777 wrote: post #17

lucian1900 wrote: post #11

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The spec is quite closely modelled after Mozilla's implementation, yes. Other engines just neglected to implement it.

> Other engines just neglected to implement it. Why would they have? Seems like waiting for ecma approval and specification makes sense.

Sure, I didn't mean they did something wrong.

Although it is quite obviously a good idea :)

Re: V8 developers start working on ES6 generators for JavaScript

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Post by coldtea » Fri, Mar 29, 2013, 9:07 PM UTC

jlongster wrote: post #31

coldtea wrote: post #28

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I am pleased too, but unfortunately it seems like they turned it into Python 3. That is: not a stable, cross platform, version on the horizon yet --not even excluding IE--, and we're in for a long wait.

Not at all. We are seeing an extremely rapid adoption of ES6 features and the standard is going to be completely finalized this year (or early next year), meaning browsers don't really have a choice but to implement it.

That's already several years late. It was supposed to be ready around 2008 -- then it was cancelled, gone nowhere, and we had to wait another 5 years for ES6 which is still not here. I mean: "This year or early next year"? Add the sweet time the browser vendors will take, browser adoption etc, and it will be 2018 or 2020 when we can use it for mainstream sites.

Not to mention that the "browsers don't really have a choice but to implement it" does not hold at all. Safari, IE and Chrome can continue to ignore it or implement only little parts of it for the next 2-3 years.