alt Hacker NewsThe proposal is to introduce a whole slew of syntax to JS that according to the proposal will have no meaning. This is a paradox. You have only created a language if you can use it to convey meaning
The proposal is to introduce a whole slew of syntax to JS that according to the proposal will have no meaning. This is a paradox. You have only created a language if you can use it to convey meaning
That's not entirely true. Ideally, there would be a follow up with a reflection API.
Also, comments are syntax and they're mostly meaningless. By your reasoning, programming languages should have no comments.
So, it's not really a qualitative issue (presence of meaningless syntax) but a quantitative one (presence of lots of parsing complexity).