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Sucks to hear about your experience. Like you said yes arrow functions are slated for the next major release. As for the process, I think it has become a little more stringent for sure. To submit a request for consideration you’d need to submit a proposal on GitHub with attention paid to impact to existing code and impact on future Haxe features- perhaps your feature request wasn’t deemed to be thought out enough? It…
> perhaps your feature request wasn’t deemed to be thought out enough? In which case surely it should be discussed, rather than shut down with "no"? This thread had me interested in Haxe, but reading these comments about the unfriendly, negative responses to proposals has put me right off.
A little discussion about the proposal. Some didn't seem to like it because of 'language clarity'. Some group of core developers discussed it and rejected it.
I don't know what one expects but I have seen quite some language proposals (rejected) and this didn't seem inappropriate to me. They don't want it.. accept it or move on. They gave a reason. If you think it's sufficient is another thing and mostly about opinion.