System.import()?

[Isiah Meadows]

There are ways for syncing promises for Node compatibility, although they
all lie in C++ land. Similar has already been done with Node callbacks.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/sync

(You could also spawn a thread, block for a message, and join it with the
promise result from a C++ callback from a thenable.)

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015, 18:06 Bradley Meck <bradley.meck at gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem is timing; WHATWG uses promises, which Node cannot use due to
> existing code bases on npm + potential mixing w/ `require`. This causes
> time discrepancies and would mean different actions depending on how
> exactly hooks are specced out. Node does not want to prevent async loading
> on the browser, and the WHATWG loader does not want to cause breakage in
> Node.
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Jason Orendorff <
> jason.orendorff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Bradley Meck <bradley.meck at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > This would assume they can support the transformation hooks to do things
>> > like load coffeescript etc. right now, which is the main contention
>> point.
>>
>> It is a perfectly ordinary occurrence in software to ship some
>> capability at one point, and ways of customizing that capability
>> later.
>>
>> -j
>>
>
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