SmooshGate

• proposal-flatMap

  2 214 0.0 HTML

  Discontinued proposal for flatten and flatMap on arrays

  

• prevent-smoosh

  1 730 10.0 JavaScript

  Don't let TC39 use smoosh or smooshMap

Yes. Some folks who variously:

a) didn't know how to recognize a cheeky straw man proposal

b) didn't know how to take a joke

c) didn't agree with (or understand the importance of) the never-break-the-web imperative that TC39 operates under (turns out this is a lot of people)

tried to do exactly this to "prevent smoosh":

- https://github.com/staltz/prevent-smoosh

- https://twitter.com/andrestaltz/status/971500672620351494

Mostly, though, they just taught TC39 to have less fun and to ignore the "just break the web it's okay!" crowd.

Why TC39 operates under this never-break-the-web imperative: because if they didn't, every proposal they consider might devolve into an unresolvable discussion of "well is THIS thing important enough to break the web over? how much usage would this change break? how valuable do we think this is?". The easiest, and only, way to resolve all possible such discussions is to just not have them.

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• proposal-array-grouping

  19 513 0.0 HTML

  Discontinued A proposal to make grouping of array items easier

  

At the end of the day, it comes down to whether browser vendors are willing to ship the feature even though it breaks said websites, and they do have visitor data to back those decisions. If the rule was "never break any website ever", you'd be able to block proposals you don't personally like by crafting a website that "gets broken" by that proposal.

At least in the array grouping proposal, they did evaluate amount and popularity of possibly breaking sites, before eventually renaming the method from .groupBy to .group

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-array-grouping/issues/37

• es1995

  10 79 0.0 JavaScript

  ES1995 – The Missing JS Polyfill

> It made the decision to extend prototypes. In hindsight, a huge mistake.

I think it was a mistake at the time, but I still believe prototypal inheritance is pretty great idea. And JS desperately needs standard library, which IMO should extend built-in prototypes, so the language would be more coherent. ES1995 [0] was a funny take on this direction, but people (mainly non-JS people) would like to seriously use it. Go figure.

[0]: https://github.com/mlajtos/es1995

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