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Comment by saebekassebil

So this is all in the holy name of making JavaScript the assembly language of the web? Making it possible for every JavaScripter to write "his own" JavaScript syntax definitions meaning that I'll (as a contributor or just casual watcher) would have to read his whole collection of macros before I could begin to understand the code?

I don't think this can be compared to API's as they still follow the regular syntactic definitions - This will be like reading a completely new language every time I read a different repository. (Of course this is a worst-case scenario as I imagine that many macros will be used across several projects, but still.)

Is all hope gone for writing vanilla JS gone? And isn't macros kinda going in the opposite direction than the ES specs? There's no use for many of the ES6/7 features as they could just be mocked up in macros.

parent saebekassebil 14 years ago

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