Deep dive in JavaScript (great summary)

#1

Going forward and with the work currently underway on Tumult HyperEdit now Whisk… I am hoping for modern syntax highlighting in Hype too. Also the support for some node based pre processing would be great (maybe a hook to run every function through on export in exportscripts)

But this post isn’t about feature requests … it is about the following read on medium. For all with slight familiarity with JavaScript using Hype… this article sums up the development of JavaScript over the years and the changes ahead.

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#2

All the editor improvements that are in Whisk will be brought back to Hype, including syntax highlighting for the newer keywords.

We aren’t planning any preprocessors support… while I can see some sort of hook to modify the code might be generally useful, was there a particular case in mind you had for this?

#3

Yes simple expander or code optimization like the removal of comments or pre processors for specific dialects like type script etc.

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#4

Ah gotchya - yes the use case for a minifier makes a lot of sense here.