Subj : Re: Help, It's my fault this time
To   : DesotoFireflite
From : Tracker1
Date : Sat Jul 16 2022 14:20:10

On 7/16/22 03:29, DesotoFireflite wrote:
 >
 > I've put baja aside for now, and started working in js, as it seems
 > to be the more prudent thing to do these days...

100% on that.. JavaScript is a more complex language, but also much more 
capable than BAJA.  I find my biggest hurdles is the language has 
advanced a lot since the version used in SynchroNet and the style has 
changed even more so.

There's a few points of JS code in the SynchroNet repository that make 
even configuring code linting and formatting is the experimental syntax 
for for-of expressions and getter/setter (iirc) were standardized 
differently.

So would love to replace some of the for-of expressions with maybe 
lodash usage in the near term, check on getter/setter use, try to get 
close to full shims for ES5 in place and working, then do a sweep with a 
formatting tool, then configuring linting.

Of course would have to start with an editor that doesn't auto-format 
first.  Also, would want to switch any references with raw high 
character codes in JS files with escaped characters, so everything falls 
into the 7-bit space, so UTF8 can be assumed (supported as default for 
most editors).

There does seem to be resistance to normalizing the JS itself... so 
unsure if any such efforts are even worth the time.

That said, getting the codebase to shimmable ES5 standards would ease at 
least that part of migrating to a new JS engine.
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Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com
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