IDE support?

[Alex Russell]

I'm hopeful that type inference combined with class syntax and an (eventual) traits system will get us "there", so that you can use structural type tests for enforcement and that the IDE can get the benefit of hints through inference. That said, I think the "I want to refactor automatically" use-case is sort of over-played.

On Sep 11, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Brendan Eich wrote:

> 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
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> 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?
>> 
>> 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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