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by SloopJon
3775 days ago
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For those who were wondering what strong mode is, this is a post to the Strengthening JS group, which for discussion of "strong mode and type system extensions that the V8 team is working on." Strong mode is "a new language mode (an extension of strict mode) that implements a stronger semantics by removing brittle or costly features." https://developers.google.com/v8/experiments The conclusion is that "we have reluctantly decided not to pursue strong mode further." |
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Not all is lost. We continue to investigate the addition of types to V8. And in fact, typing may bring some of the benefits of strong mode for lower cost.
...probably have us readjust our design goals. In particular, we no longer believe that requiring type soundness _by default_ can ever work successfully in JavaScript.