ES6 was released 16 years ago. I'm building on top of ES6 like it's rock solid, and so far I haven't been disappointed. After ES6 the langdev process changed materially, and it now rewards introducing language features that are, in my view, half-baked. I have had to take over parts of the work of the standards committee to be able to do this project at all.
I had to reinvent iteration to get both perf and abstraction at the same time: https://docs.bablr.org/architecture/spacetime
I also had to create records and deep freezing: https://es.discourse.group/t/proposal-records-a-new-one/2546...
Right, but that about halves the age of JavaScript as noted in this thread.
I fully agree that it is reaching a more stable place now than it was 5 or 10 years ago. It is still nowhere near as old as elisp.
Oh for sure. I'm not trying to make a case against Emacs or Elisp or anything. Mature tech is highly, highly valuable. I just wanted to know if JS could do it. Could it, can it host a whole unix-y, emacs-y OS?