Re: ByteArray / Uint8Array

[Andrea Giammarchi <andrea giammarchi gmail com>]

just thinking about this, how about you keep ByteArray as it is, deprecating it, and you introduce a global Buffer still based on UInt8Array ?

in cgjs I've just done `require("buffer")` which brings in the node version of a buffer which is already based on native Uint8Array

it'd be awkward to move back and forward from ByteArray <=> Buffer/Uint8Array in the transition time, so having a new primitive already well documented might be a better option?

otherwise I personally wouldn't care as long as it's backward compatible

Regards

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 2:13 AM, <philip chimento gmail com> wrote:

Hi list,

I have some code in progress to revamp GJS's ByteArray to use a standard _javascript_ Uint8Array (part of modern _javascript_'s typed array family) instead of the custom GJS object. Read more about it here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/issues/5

Does anyone have any thoughts on ByteArray or see any problems with the proposed course of action?

Regards,

Philip C

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