- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:33:02 +0100
- To: "Mark S. Miller" <erights@google.com>
- Cc: es-discuss <es-discuss@mozilla.org>, Douglas Crockford <douglas@crockford.com>, "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>, Norbert Lindenberg <w3@norbertlindenberg.com>, Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote: > [...] My previous experience has been trying to get bytes in JavaScript (mostly for XMLHttpRequest): asked from TC39 in 2006. Eventually delivered by Khronos for WebGL. Mourned over by TC39 (and others, myself included) in 2012. If the party "responsible" for delivering the solution does not deliver, it will happen elsewhere. And to some extent that seems good, as it keeps everyone alert and the platform is not held hostile to the progress (and process) of a single entity. As I mentioned elsewhere, the platform needs more primitives. IO streams, event streams (or signals), futures, ... I have no strongly held believes as to where these should be hosted, I just know that we need them, soon. And getting them soon in JavaScript seems hard as you'd have to lift up the event loop model defined in HTML somehow to the language level. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
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