On: Announcing Amber.js

[autarch]

I don't think you really read what I wrote code-wise. I'm all for using accessors, that's why I wrote:

  var prop = model.prop()

Note the parens there. I just like giving each accessor a unique method name as opposed to getting at all properties through a single get() method.

[tomdale → autarch]

Sure, but then you have to create a function for each property, even if it's a number or a string. Those bytes add up significantly in large applications.

Additionally, specifying the property as a string allows you to implement "unknown property" handlers, which is another extremely powerful idiom.

[mbostock → tomdale]

This might become more common when Proxy is supported more widely in JavaScript implementations.

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:direct_proxie...