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<pre wrap="">> Gervase Markham wrote on 18.09.2015 15:32:
>> To put it another way: "what would we have lost if we had forked m-c two
>> years ago"?
Two examples beside security bugs:
* Ongoing improvements to the JS engine and APIs: Within the past two
years, this includes (off the top of my head) ES6, Promises, Tasks,
OS.File, shutdown blockers. These have already been very useful, and are
key for any attempt to move more of the backend code from C++ to JS.</pre>
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true. I used three out of these five and had to write wrappers to
keep my Addons Postbox compatible. So there is an argument for
staying "in sync" as long as possible to benefit from more
improvements. The question is whether (in an ideal world) we should
prepare a parallel / alternative platform for an exit strategy. I
have very little hope that there will be funds / willingness for a
"rewrite" to completely move away from m-c...<br>
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