| 20:10 | <Steve Hicks> | In light of today's discussion about kickstarting the conversation here, I just wanted to mention that as someone who owns an optimizer, we have a vested interest in moving people away from prototype methods and toward standalone functions, which can be optimized a lot more reliably. I don't have strong feelings about whether it's hack-style or F#-style, or what the topic token should be (though I do feel bad trying to use pure punctuation due to the amount of syntax space it eats up to treat (a sequence of) non-identifier chars as an identifier). But if we could start shifting patterns toward functions over methods, that would be a win for optimized code size. |
| 22:05 | <ljharb> | glad to hear it, that would be a win for code clarity and maintainability too |