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September 2013 Modules Status Update

dherman
September 18, 2013

September 2013 Modules Status Update

My status update on ES6 modules for the September 2013 TC39 meeting.

dherman

September 18, 2013
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  1. SPEC STATUS • Grammar and static semantics draft-complete. Allen has

    begun merging into ES6 drafts. • Linking semantics written in pseudocode, transcribing to Word this week. • Evaluation and loading semantics implemented in polyfill, next on my list to spec. • @jorendorff hacked us up a tool to convert literate Markdown comments to Word.
  2. OUR PLANS • Won’t wait for November F2F to post

    updates. • Will see more progress in Allen’s updates. • @jorendorff working towards getting polyfill functional as self-hosted implementation for Firefox Nightly builds.
  3. TECHNICAL UPDATES • Syntax is done. Community actively building tools.

    Absent any surprise ambiguities, further debate is unnecessary and unwise. • Trickiest part of loading semantics involves concurrent loading scenarios, which @jorendorff did great work on. Now needs implementation testing. • Event-loop semantics would ideally be in ES6 but it’s cleanly factored out so we can live without.
  4. TECHNICAL UPDATES • Almost all of the loader pipeline is

    async. Allows e.g. remote translation/compilation/analysis. • Separated translation hook from Function/ indirect eval hooks. • Eliminated the complexity of loader “inheritance.” Nested virtualization can easily be implemented explicitly via composition.
  5. TECHNICAL UPDATES • Biggest simplification: eliminate inline modules. • Does

    away with controversial and complex feature; door still open for lexical modules. • Bundling belongs at browser layer, and was problematic for cross-origin loading anyway. • Bundling formats still implementable...
  6. BROWSER LOADER • Not part of ECMA-262. • Will work

    with Yehuda, Anne, Alex, and others on a Web spec proposal. • Not blocking ES6 deadline, but needs to start now so we can p(r)ol(l)yfill and experiment.
  7. 18 SEPT 13 TC39 DISCUSSION • Need further discussion of

    sync vs. async entry points in HTML. Ecma-262 will simply specify two top-level non-terminals, one that allows imports and one that doesn’t • Need for module linking/registration with on- demand execution • Discuss integration with other Web standards orgs