- From: Ted Mielczarek <ted@mozilla.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:02:50 -0400
- To: public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
- Cc: kg@luminance.org
Received on Thursday, 23 April 2015 22:03:18 UTC
Has anyone ever proposed exposing the structured clone algorithm directly as an API? Katelyn Gadd was musing about fast deep copy in JS on Twitter, and I proposed a hack to use postMessage to do so[1], which works but it's a little roundabout. Since structured clone is a primitive that the web platform is built on it seems like a primitive that ought to be exposed. I know this exists in other languages (Python has copy.deepcopy[2]) and there's an npm "deepcopy" module[3] with lots of downloads so this is clearly something people use. -Ted 1. https://twitter.com/TedMielczarek/status/591315580277391360 2. https://docs.python.org/2/library/copy.html#copy.deepcopy 3. https://www.npmjs.com/package/deepcopy
Received on Thursday, 23 April 2015 22:03:18 UTC