My kingdom for "everything is an expression" in JS/TS, but that would likely req...

eyelidlessness · on Feb 27, 2023

If you’re willing to accept a little bit of extra syntax/ceremony, the `do` expressions proposal[1] is pretty much this (but it’s only stage 1 so who knows when/if it’ll land).

1: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-do-expressions

Yahivin · on Feb 28, 2023

We often add promising TC39 proposals into Civet so people can experiment without waiting.

We've added https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator, a variant of https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching, a variant of https://github.com/tc39/proposal-string-dedent and others.

Since our goal is to be 99% compatible with ES we'll need to accommodate any proposals that become standard and pick up anything TC39 leaves on the table (rest parameters in any position, etc.)

8f2ab37a-ed6c · on Feb 28, 2023

Nice! Wasn't aware of that at all.

davedx · on Feb 27, 2023

At some point you might as well just use lisp, right? :D

eyelidlessness · on Feb 27, 2023

I love me some lisp, but I definitely prefer my JS-hosted code to be as close to JS language and semantics as possible (and that’s after a few years working in ClojureScript). Then again I’m commenting in a thread about an article with CoffeeScript in the title so I’m probably the weird one here.

slifin · on Feb 28, 2023

Have you considered https://github.com/squint-cljs/squint ?

Personally I couldn't let go of Clojure's other advantages but at least using the syntax would let you step off the syntax churn bus

eyelidlessness · on March 1, 2023

No, unfortunately the greener pastures I found have type annotations. I miss the parentheses like hell, and I miss the actual state semantics of Clojure even more. But I wouldn’t give up static types for any of that. If I explore lisps again I’m going to start with Typed Racket.