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Exploring JavaScript Generators #41

Open Yoric opened 11 years ago

Yoric commented 11 years ago

The next generation of JavaScript, ECMAScript 6, introduces generators, a simple technique for stopping the execution of a function and resuming it later.

Experience shows that this mechanism can be used to write extraordinarily readable asynchronous/concurrent code.

The objective of this research project is to explore the use of generators for writing beautiful code that would otherwise be very difficult to write:

moonlightdrive commented 10 years ago

Hello, I am very interested in working on this, though I think I will be needing a lot of mentoring. Is there someone who would be able to mentor me on this project, or a place (mailing list, irc?) that I can look to find a mentor?

Yoric commented 10 years ago

Hi, @moonlightdrive. I could mentor that. Generally, the best place to get in touch with me is over irc (server irc.mozilla.org, channel #introduction, I'm Yoric).