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ragallyesterday at 5:22 PM1 replyview on HN

To expect is different from it being impossible.


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hackrmnyesterday at 5:26 PM

Can't argue with that.

But in defence of JavaScript -- since it enjoys routine bashing, not always undeserved -- it now has true runtime-enforced private members (the syntax is prefixing the name with `#`, strictly as part of an ES6 class declaration), but yeah -- this doesn't invalidate the statement "kind of got there 32 years after Ada, stumbling over itself".

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