On 2010-11-25, at 2:30 PM, Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert wrote:
I'm not sure it is a good idea to strive for instant irrelevance
even though that seems to happen often with PhD's...
If the new standard comes out slightly before or after I'm done with my thesis, I don't think that will make my work irrelevant. I mean, I thought I was doing a thesis on optimizing dynamic languages (which ES5 happens to be one), not specifically on JavaScript/Web 3.0.
If we can find time to slip in features like const support, modules, etc. I won't oppose to it, so long as it doesn't end up taking most of our time and delaying research work.
It is not a bad idea to combine practical relevance to theoretical relavance.
There are two ways to solve that problem...
I was actually thinking there might be a third way. A better visual editor that recognizes special forms, offers color coding, and possibly does indentation for you. Something that makes the parentheses outright invisible.
OK then...
3) emacs + paredit.el
Marc