I would never say never for any potential ECMAScript feature.
Sure, and again, at the scale in your organisation, taking an absolute position on this makes a lot of sense and I can respect the principled stance.
On the other hand, the trade-off in this case is giving up a tool that is widely useful immediately in exchange for a potential/hypothetical benefit later. For other development teams, perhaps those alternatives would be weighted differently. And then that in turn might affect how any future changes were viewed by the relevant language committees, who as you say would surely be aware of the implications.
Anyway, thanks for sharing your insights, both here and in the original article. It’s somehow reassuring to me that I’m not the only person in the world who wants their front-end code to continue working for more than five minutes, when it seems like a lot of the front-end community would consider that a pretty good working lifetime for code these days!
That's a very real trade-off and something we have to carefully make a judgement call on every time. In this specific case the decision is made a lot easier due to the fact that string unions are often a simpler alternative.
Sure, and again, at the scale in your organisation, taking an absolute position on this makes a lot of sense and I can respect the principled stance.
On the other hand, the trade-off in this case is giving up a tool that is widely useful immediately in exchange for a potential/hypothetical benefit later. For other development teams, perhaps those alternatives would be weighted differently. And then that in turn might affect how any future changes were viewed by the relevant language committees, who as you say would surely be aware of the implications.
Anyway, thanks for sharing your insights, both here and in the original article. It’s somehow reassuring to me that I’m not the only person in the world who wants their front-end code to continue working for more than five minutes, when it seems like a lot of the front-end community would consider that a pretty good working lifetime for code these days!