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Since python has had generators that "are just functions that yield, without special annotations" like, forever, I was surprised when vanilla JS decided generators need more punctuation.

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They had to, since changes cannot break backwards compatibility with the legacy web.

That seems plausible, but what would "yield" have meant before?

It might have been a function or variable name. In finance and farming domains it's a somewhat likely function/variable name.

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