Proposal to Add Signals to JavaScript

A proposal to add signals to JavaScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39886328 - March 2024 (326 comments)

Ah, since then it seems to have graduated to a Stage 1 proposal and was moved to the tc39 GitHub org.

What is with people writing purposely flawed examples?

If you want to convince a general audience that your approach is worth the additional cognitive overhead then compare it with code that is equivalently robust, not some low effort straw-man example.

JS Bin to Play with the TC39 Signals Proposal:

https://jsbin.com/safoqap/6/edit?output

from the JavaScript Weekly newsletter #683 — April 11, 2024

I prefer keeping the javascript surface area minimal. I can definitely see this as a footgun that newer programmers will use to mess up JS codebases with spaghetti of weird effects linked together