Kotlin/JS has been shown no love at all in the new...
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andylamax
06/02/2022, 11:45 AMKotlin/JS has been shown no love at all in the newly updated roadmap 😢
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Jurriaan Mous
06/02/2022, 12:18 PMI guess the Alpha support for JS in K2 compiler takes up all the work. (Higher up in roadmap list) And will likely create a lot of benefits when done like faster compiling and new compiler plugin support.
Jurriaan Mous
06/02/2022, 12:22 PMAnd there is quite some work listed to stabilise IR backend like faster and incremental compilation: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-42289/Make-the-new-JS-IR-backend-Stable
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andylamax
06/02/2022, 12:26 PMFingers crossed. I genuinely wish I could assist to speed things up. Been waiting for ES6 targets for so long now
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Big Chungus
06/02/2022, 12:28 PMES6 is at the top of my kjs wishlist. I can live with everything else...
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Jurriaan Mous
06/02/2022, 12:29 PMAh then we have to hope for IR backend to become stable quickly which seems to be top priority. As stated in issue:
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JS: support ES6 as compilation target
May 2022
Still postponed; the focus is on promoting JS IR to Stable (KT-42289).🙏 1
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Jonathan Ellis
06/02/2022, 6:33 PMDoes ES6 give us anything as a standalone improvement, or is it just a building block for things like better DCE?
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Big Chungus
06/02/2022, 6:42 PMEs6 support unlocks all the latest and greatest js ecosystem tooling. Most notably, tree-shaking with webpack and dynamic imports
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