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The proposal for RegExp lookbehind has attained a new champion, and discussions of Perl5 vs. .NET style are underway esdiscuss.org/topic/look-beh…


A proposal for additional Math functions causes discussions of potential implementations and alternatives esdiscuss.org/topic/addition…


A reminder that promises aren't only about asynchronicity esdiscuss.org/topic/alternat…


On the dangers of cache timing attacks, which would be possible in ES if the shared memory proposal succeeds: esdiscuss.org/topic/danger-o…


Ideas for handling out of memory issues, e.g. aborting or throwing an exception esdiscuss.org/topic/death-be…


A new proposal for exponentiation operator precedence: esdiscuss.org/topic/exponent…


Function names and stack traces for functions created at runtime esdiscuss.org/topic/will-fp-…


More discussion of template strings vs. template languages esdiscuss.org/topic/template…


A discussion of object ID or hash codes, although it's noted that weak map suffices for many use cases esdiscuss.org/topic/object-i…


A proposal for C#'s nameof operator would interact interestingly with minifiers esdiscuss.org/topic/what-do-…


A response to a two-year-old thread on a memory safety attack using weak references esdiscuss.org/topic/memory-s…


A discussion of weak references and post-mortem finalization vs. pre-mortem finalization for a specific use case esdiscuss.org/topic/weak-ref…


Debate about whether the global lexical tier design was good: esdiscuss.org/topic/global-l… (re: using let/etc. in the top level scope)


Disagreement about the correct precedence of the exponentiation operator became pretty heated esdiscuss.org/topic/exponent…


A bug where strict mode does not correctly throw a ReferenceError when assigning to a deleted global variable esdiscuss.org/topic/assignme…


A discussion of different possible techniques for introducing directed rounded primitives to the language esdiscuss.org/topic/directed…


The informative algorithm for [[Enumerate]] is buggy: esdiscuss.org/topic/is-the-i…


Some questions about object property enumeration order esdiscuss.org/topic/property…


A proposal to specify System.import() for imperative module importing. Questions about interaction with the loader. esdiscuss.org/topic/system-i…


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