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ECMAScript Proposal, specs, and reference implementation for `global`

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2018-06-05 · latest 2019-06-20

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…easier to write portable code across different environments without having to check various names: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-global I don't think is not a particularly JavaScript-specific issue because any language which inherits…
comment by acdha · 2019-06-20 · in Math.Round opens the browser print dialog
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Reasons/history on the “globalThis” naming for JavaScript cross-platform global
story by fagnerbrack · 2019-06-02 · 0 comments
…contexts (web workers, Node), the two are the same thing. 2) The property naming is ... well, read https://github.com/tc39/proposal-global/blob/master/NAMING.m... for a (longish) summary. Node uses "global", but browsers couldn't do that…
comment by bzbarsky · 2019-05-13 · in A horrifying globalThis polyfill in JavaScript
…doesn't support it. This is a bit surprising as globalThis is already supported in Chrome. [0] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-global
comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2019-01-29 · in Firefox 65.0 released
…document explaining the process of finding a good name ("globalThis") for global is pretty cool: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-global/blob/master/NAMING.m...
comment by je42 · 2019-01-23 · in What's New in JavaScript for 2019
…a long time, but ended up breaking both Flickr and Jira because they both use a library that broke: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-global/issues/20
comment by alangpierce · 2018-11-28 · in ECMAScript regular expressions are getting better (2017)
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“global” breaks flickr.com
story by dcgudeman · 2018-06-05 · 0 comments