WeakReferences TC39 proposal

Initial Spec-text

Slides

Deprecated docs that are still useful

OLD Explanation

WeakRefGroups: Likely refactoring of API surface

Support for long wasm jobs: Possible additional APIs for non-JS top levels that don't yield.

Champions

• Dean Tribble
• Mark Miller
• Till Schneidereit

Status

• WeakReferences are now Stage 2
• Till Schneidereit has joined as a co-champion
• Bradley Meck has a V8 implementation of the old API. He will be updating it to the new API.
• Till has a prototype of the new API in the SPideRMonkey console

Todo