JavaScript, TC39, language design, math. I try to avoid twitter, but some conversations only happen here.
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My most idiosyncratic JS opinion is that we should all write
`0, { x } = y;`
instead of
`({ x } = y);`
so you don't have to jump to the end of the line to add the parenthesis. If only I could convince tooling to support this... (i.e. get prettier not to add the parentheses)
Several people blamed the recent npm incidents on JS's minimal standard library.
I think that's wrong: the affected packages are mostly either already covered by node or could not reasonably be in a standard library.
But! I'm always taking suggestions for new stdlib features.
Some common questions and answers about the development of JavaScript: github.com/tc39/faq/
Feel free to suggest more!
Breaking my "never tweet" rule to bring you this overview of a very neat JS library which solves the "your function can be usable in either sync or async contexts, but not both" problem. writing.bakkot.com/gensync.h…