Re: [whatwg/streams] Switching to Web IDL (#963)

I'm in favour, although there are many tricky details. Generally I think the path of least resistance for the standard is likely to also be the path of least resistance for implementations.

An exception is options bag processing, where for implementations it is much easier to use dictionaries, but for the standard would require significant reorganisation. I think on balance the benefit of using dictionaries would be worth it, although there may be some costs I haven't identified.

Nit: `size()` is a function, not a method. If it was a method that would imply that it was stateful. I think it would be best to just move it off the prototype and onto the object itself.

If I understand correctly, the change would mean that some objects would end up being created in different realms? That stuff is super confusing. Hopefully someone from Firefox can comment on this aspect, as I understand they've been suffering from this.

I agree on (4). Having internal slots look like member variable accesses and operations look like functions has made it easier for Blink's implementation to match the standard. I wouldn't want to move to a more prosey style.

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