Proposal of JavaScript becoming a compiled language: JS0 and JSSugar

Agenda: https://github.com/tc39/agendas/blob/main/2024/10.md

Slide: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ylROTu3N6MyHzNzWJXQA...

@nullvoxpopuli 's relevant post on X: https://x.com/nullvoxpopuli/status/1842389133810913338

I do write JavaScript by hand directly for the browser to consume. I am no web developer though and I dislike the toolchain that webpacks my imaginary TypeScript project.

To me a scripting language immediately loses its best features. I understand why large JS projects get implemented in TypeScript. I do visualization for the browser and don't need it and frankly, most sites I see wouldn't need it either.

The most complicated JS code is some shitty advertiser tracking anyway.

But with a toolchain like that, I don't see why you wouldn't want to compile a program if you have all the drawbacks anyway.