The globalThis proposal introduces a unified mechanism to access the global this in any JavaScript environment. It sounds like a simple thing to polyfill, but it turns out it’s pretty hard to get right. I didn’t even think it was possible until Toon blew ... (more…)

JavaScript is a bit confusing for developers experienced in class-based languages (like Java or C++), as it is dynamic and does not provide a class implementation per se (the class keyword is introduced in ES2015, but is syntactical sugar, JavaScript rema... (more…)

After a few months writing Clojure I began writing Javascript again. As I was trying to write something ordinary, I had the following thoughts: They seemed unnecessary. But I imagine I’ve thought… (more…)

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