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Darius Kazemi

ES2021 was just approved and is finally, FINALLY shipping with String.prototype.replaceAll. So

'falafel'.replace(/l/g,'b')
'falafel'.replaceAll('l','b')

both give you `fabafeb`.

No more regex needed just to get the "greedy" flag in there!

h3manth.com/ES2021/#stringprot

25 Jun 2021 at 17:00 | Open on friend.camp
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Annika Backstrom

@darius thanks, now I want fabafeb for dinner

25 Jun 2021 at 17:10 | Open on xoxo.zone
Mina

@darius how many years until the JavaScript standard library is usable enough to not require a million npm packages installed?

25 Jun 2021 at 17:17 | Open on cathode.church
Darius Kazemi

@meena I think it's already there and we just have some very bad habits ingrained (and lots of very common dependencies don't use the new JS syntax themselves, so then THEY install those dependencies even if you don't)

25 Jun 2021 at 17:22 | Open on friend.camp
Mina

@darius i think I'm mostly thinking of mutable by default (array) functions
which seems like a bad thing in… most languages

25 Jun 2021 at 17:44 | Open on cathode.church
Touk

@darius 1. Nice! Shouldn't need a regex just for that.
2. I saw the URL and at first thought you hashtagged #stringprototypereplaceall (very niche of you)

25 Jun 2021 at 17:19 | Open on smores.town
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