ES6 JavaScript #64

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opened 2022-01-14 06:26:16 +00:00 by kirsle · 1 comment

kirsle commented

2022-01-14 06:26:16 +00:00

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Otto is great for its transparent bindings between Go/JS but its limited ES5 support is a pain.

Ideas for possible improvement:

goja seems similar to Otto, it can run Babel and pretty much anything ES5, and they've implemented many useful ES6 features already like arrow functions, promises, and for-of.
Sledgehammer approach: to provide a good user experience, the game (and doodad tool) takes your modern ES6 source and transparently runs it through Babel or whatever to make it ES5 that's accepted by either engine. doodad show --script would show the ES5-ified source and not the original.

Otto is great for its transparent bindings between Go/JS but its limited ES5 support is a pain. Ideas for possible improvement: * [goja](https://github.com/dop251/goja) seems similar to Otto, it can run Babel and pretty much anything ES5, and they've [implemented](https://github.com/dop251/goja/milestone/1?closed=1) many useful ES6 features already like arrow functions, promises, and for-of. * Sledgehammer approach: to provide a good user experience, the game (and doodad tool) takes your modern ES6 source and transparently runs it through Babel or whatever to make it ES5 that's accepted by either engine. `doodad show --script` would show the ES5-ified source and not the original.