IDE support?

[Brendan Eich]

Type Inference can do a lot. See http://doctorjs.org/.

We do not want people adding guards all over their code, IMHO. Anyway, we don't know have guards ES6.

Disclosure: I'm an ajax.org (http://c9.io/) advisor.

/be

On Sep 11, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Axel Rauschmayer wrote:

> One thing I liked about the Dash/Dart email was that it explicitly stated the goal of tool/IDE support (this is the only area where I miss Java when programming JavaScript). Is there something corresponding among the Harmony goals [1]? (5) Support a statically verifiable, object-capability secure subset(?)
> 
> For IDE-support we already have class literals in ES.next. What is still missing? Type guards? Will those make it into ES.next?
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> I find that there is a lot of cool stuff going into ES.next which will make it highly competitive with whatever Google can possibly come up with. However, a good Dart IDE can do much to increase Dart’s appeal. On the other hand, the market for a good JavaScript IDE is large (as in “unfragmented”) and only becoming larger, so maybe we’ll eventually get there.
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> [1] http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:harmony
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