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0 pointshalfmatthalfcat1y ago0 comments

Pattern matching (and expression based assignment, of which idk if there’s a proposal for or not) are two things that would really drive a ton of value.

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CharlieDigital1y ago

It's going to end up looking a lot like C# [0][1]; these two/three (JS/TS, C#) languages have been converging for a while now. Now just waiting for C# to get official first party discriminated unions!

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...

[1] https://timdeschryver.dev/blog/pattern-matching-examples-in-...

adabyron1y ago

Just an FYI for those unaware TS & C# are both creations of Anders Hejlsberg & his colleagues at Microsoft. Both are some of my favorite languages as well.

We would all benefit if JS was more like C# in my opinion.

recursive1y ago

Assignment is already an expression, no?

    console.log(x = "hello");

651y ago

Now try it with a constant:

    console.log(const x = "hello");

Doesn't work.

recursive1y ago

That's a declaration. That would be cool. Doesn't currently work with let or var either.

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CharlieDigital1y ago

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...

[1] https://timdeschryver.dev/blog/pattern-matching-examples-in-...

adabyron1y ago

Just an FYI for those unaware TS & C# are both creations of Anders Hejlsberg & his colleagues at Microsoft. Both are some of my favorite languages as well.

We would all benefit if JS was more like C# in my opinion.

recursive1y ago

Assignment is already an expression, no?

    console.log(x = "hello");

651y ago

Now try it with a constant:

    console.log(const x = "hello");

Doesn't work.

recursive1y ago

That's a declaration. That would be cool. Doesn't currently work with let or var either.

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