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ETHproductions

22:00

Hmmmmmm

I guess it's possible to support both

5, 6 or 2015, 7 or 2016, ...

feersum

Maybe JS wouldn't be so bad if they would stop introducing new features.

ETHproductions

I briefly considered making 7 just refer to ESNext, but then I remembered how having a "most recent" versioning setting went with Japt (spoiler alert: not well)

feersum

In a language legendary for its cross-incompatibility, frequent new versions can't help.

ETHproductions

Very true, but at least they've standardized the process now

feersum

Eh?

ETHproductions

22:05

Since ES6/2015, the panel in charge of ECMAScript has had bi-monthly meeting to discuss new features, which go through a 4-stage process to meet requirements. They then standardize a certain set of features once a year, which becomes the next release

LegionMammal978

WUUUT

The reddit.com/place timer has been reduced to 5 minutes

feersum

So before that, it was like, one browser vendor would just think of a cool function to add?

ETHproductions

Pretty much, though ECMAScript had created a few standardized releases (such as ES5)

feersum

So what stops them from thinking of more "cool" stuff to add?

ETHproductions

They still do. It's just mostly on the side of various APIs to do specific things (such as speech synthesis)

Another example is array comprehensions, such as [for (a of b) a + 1], which was drafted in ES6 but dropped late in the process. Firefox implemented it anyway

I think the various browsers are teaming up somehow to standardize the non-ECMAScript features though

feersum

22:10

The more standards the merrier!

ETHproductions

Since ECMAScript doesn't standardize alert, console.log, etc., someone has to if we want cross-browser compatability :P

LegionMammal978

Question: What in the world has happened to our April 1 design?

For context:

Nov 3 '16 at 23:10, by ΛεγίωνΜάμμαλϠΟΗʹ

Can someone give me a date within the next 6 months so I can pretend that it will be the day we get our design?

Nov 3 '16 at 23:10, by Dennis

April 1st

Now, can someone give me a date within the next 6 months from today so I can pretend that it will be the day we get our design?

ETHproductions

I'd say November 1, but that's 7 months away

Helka Homba

Dance Dance Authentication >.>

Stack Overflow Introduces Dance Dance Authentication

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fəˈnɛtɪk

Our design is 6 months away at all times.

ETHproductions

22:23

s/6/6-8/

Whoa... there's a proposal to add arbitrary-precision integers to JavaScript? How have I not seen that before?

It must've been added recently, but it's already halfway through the process

betseg

@LegionMammal978 it was 5, then became 10, then became 20, then became 10, now it's 5 again

Conor O'Brien

@ETHproductions omg this is going to be awesome

is this on github?

Anonymous

@betseg The best part is, one of the overlaps is intentional

Anonymous

Californium is named after California

ETHproductions

@ConorO'Brien Yeah, in the TC39 proposals repo

Mistah Figgins

22:35

@HelkaHomba Wow, I can;t believe this is actually happening! /s

ETHproductions

github.com/tc39/proposals

github.com/tc39/proposal-integer specifically

betseg

@Mego but it doesn't have Americium :D

ETHproductions

It's at stage 2. Regex lookbehinds and named capture groups are both at stage 3 :)

Conor O'Brien

@ETHproductions weird, why does the repo have things like 2n? Is that a proposal?

ohhhh

nvm

ETHproductions

Yes, that's the proposed syntax for Integers

Ooh, the s flag on regexes is also at stage 3

Alt-F4

22:37

please refresh

Anonymous

@betseg Well, yes. America is not a state in the United States of America. This should not be surprising.

Alt-F4

Can you people please refresh the page

Helka Homba

We see you Alt+F4

Anonymous

Also Americium is named after the American continents, not after the country

ETHproductions

And there's now a proposal for a Math.signbit function which will allow us to tell between -0 and +0. This is great :-)

Conor O'Brien

22:40

Mistah Figgins

Jeez, my cat just brought in a live bee

Anonymous

JS is getting integers? 1995 says hello.

Mistah Figgins

thankfully it couldn't fly

Helka Homba

@MistahFiggins all my cats fly away :/

ETHproductions

@Mego Better late than never, though only slightly

Mistah Figgins

22:43

darned ambiguous pronouns

Conor O'Brien

@Mego can you see if they can bring us a playstation

Anonymous

@ConorO'Brien They're fresh out. Is a Sega Saturn ok?

Conor O'Brien

hrmph, ok

flawr

@Mego there is a country in america?

Helka Homba

23:09

"America" = USA generally (at least in the USA)

Destructible Lemon

23:28

um hi

LegionMammal978

@betseg When was that created? The final elements finally got permanent names a couple months back

Destructible Lemon

it appears that the void has consumed our ppcg art on r/place. animals

Qwerp-Derp

Yay I integrated Java and Clojure into one project!

Destructible Lemon

it appears we may have to partner with blue corner or something

eugh

Qwerp-Derp

I can now have classes in Java, and everything else in Clojure!

Mistah Figgins

23:41

Man, I'm trying to figure out a way to do the balancing brackets challenge without brute-forcing it. It's pretty tough

you can obviously ignore matching pairs at no cost

Do greedy quantifiers in regex have a priority? I.e. will the a in .*a.* refer to the first or second a in ##a##a####?

Qwerp-Derp

Pretty sure the first .* will match up to the second a

regex101.com/r/3tnKdw/1

SIGSEGV

Will we ever have SW4Gs?

Qwerp-Derp

TIL now I have 159 post karma

Cause I posted this joke on r/dadjokes

TuxCopter

@Qwerp-Derp >_>

Qwerp-Derp

@TuxCopter I mean it is a dad joke, so yeah

Conor O'Brien

23:58

@Qwerp-Derp the ton makes it for me. Je suiston

(say it fast)

Qwerp-Derp

@ConorO'Brien ???

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