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by rinchik 2712 days ago
Thank you for that link, will read it carefully. From the first glance it feels like an attempt to cover mess with a bigger mess:

> this is already a source of enough confusion in JS; we'd prefer not to make it worse

> Property access semantics are already complicated, and we don't want to slow down every property access just to add this feature.

> [private x] in JavaScript this would silently create or access a public field

Pardon me, but # as a declaration method of privates is an abomination.

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Yeah I have to agree with this. I'm getting this vibe from a lot of changes to JS lately. A mess designed to cover another mess and people almost blindly supporting the new mess just because there is some logical rationale for it.