ECMAScript proposals

ECMAScript Internationalization API Specification proposals

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Active proposals

Proposals follow this process document. This list contains only stage 2 proposals and higher that have not yet been withdrawn/rejected, or become finished. Stage 2 indicates that the committee expects these features to be developed and eventually included in the standard.

Stage 3

Proposal Author Champion Tests Last Presented
Legacy RegExp features in JavaScript Claude Pache Mark Miller
Claude Pache
May 2017
Atomics.waitAsync Lars Hansen Shu-yu Guo
Lars Hansen
December 2019
Import Assertions Myles Borins
Sven Sauleau
Dan Clark
Daniel Ehrenberg
Myles Borins
Sven Sauleau
Dan Clark
Daniel Ehrenberg
November 2020
JSON Modules Myles Borins
Sven Sauleau
Dan Clark
Daniel Ehrenberg
Myles Borins
Sven Sauleau
Dan Clark
Daniel Ehrenberg
January 2021
Temporal Philipp Dunkel
Maggie Johnson-Pint
Matt Johnson-Pint
Brian Terlson
Shane Carr
Ujjwal Sharma
Philip Chimento
Jason Williams
Justin Grant
Philipp Dunkel
Maggie Johnson-Pint
Matt Johnson-Pint
Brian Terlson
Shane Carr
Ujjwal Sharma
Philip Chimento
Jason Williams
Justin Grant
March 2021
Resizable and growable ArrayBuffers Shu-yu Guo Shu-yu Guo May 2021
ShadowRealm Caridy Patiño
Jean-Francois Paradis
Dave Herman
Mark Miller
Caridy Patiño
Leo Balter
Rick Waldron
Chengzhong Wu
December 2021
Array Grouping Justin Ridgewell Justin Ridgewell ✅ (array-grouping feature) December 2021
Decorators Daniel Ehrenberg
Chris Garrett
Chris Garrett March 2022
RegExp v flag with set notation + properties of strings Markus Scherer
Mathias Bynens
Mathias Bynens ✅ (regexp-v-flag feature) March 2022
Change Array by Copy Ashley Claymore
Robin Ricard
Ashley Claymore
Robin Ricard
🚧 March 2022
Symbols as WeakMap keys Daniel Ehrenberg
Richard Button
Robin Ricard
Leo Balter
Rick Waldron
Caridy Patiño
Daniel Ehrenberg
Richard Button
Robin Ricard
Leo Balter
Rick Waldron
Caridy Patiño
June 2022
JSON.parse source text access Richard Gibson Richard Gibson June 2022
RegExp Modifiers Ron Buckton Ron Buckton June 2022
Duplicate named capture groups Kevin Gibbons Kevin Gibbons July 2022
Array.fromAsync J.S. Choi J.S. Choi September 2022

Stage 2

Proposal Author Champion Last Presented
function.sent metaproperty Allen Wirfs-Brock HE Shi-Jun July 2019
throw expressions Ron Buckton Ron Buckton January 2018
Function implementation hiding Domenic Denicola
Michael Ficarra
Michael Ficarra June 2020
New Set methods Michał Wadas
Sathya Gunasekaran
Sathya Gunasekaran January 2019
Sequence properties in Unicode property escapes Mathias Bynens Mathias Bynens October 2019
collection normalization Bradley Farias Bradley Farias January 2019
Array.isTemplateObject Mike Samuel, Krzysztof Kotowicz Krzysztof Kotowicz December 2019
Iterator helpers Gus Caplan Michael Ficarra
Jonathan Keslin
July 2020
Explicit Resource Management Ron Buckton Ron Buckton February 2020
Map.prototype.emplace Bradley Farias Erica Pramer July 2020
Dynamic Import Host Adjustment Mike Samuel, Krzysztof Kotowicz Krzysztof Kotowicz December 2019
WeakRefs cleanupSome Yulia Startsev
Daniel Ehrenberg
Yulia Startsev
Daniel Ehrenberg
July 2020
Record & Tuple Robin Ricard
Richard Button
Robin Ricard
Richard Button
December 2021
Module Blocks Surma
Daniel Ehrenberg
Surma January 2021
Pipeline Operator J. S. Choi
James DiGioia
Ron Buckton
Tab Atkins
J. S. Choi
Ron Buckton
Tab Atkins
August 2021
Destructure Private Fields Justin Ridgewell Justin Ridgewell December 2021
RegExp Buffer Boundaries (\A, \z, \Z) Ron Buckton Ron Buckton December 2021
Decorator Metadata Chris Garrett Chris Garrett March 2022
String.dedent Misha Kaletsky
Hemanth HM
Justin Ridgewell
Hemanth HM
Justin Ridgewell
June 2022
Import Reflection Luca Casonato Guy Bedford July 2022
JSON.parseImmutable Robin Ricard
Richard Button
Nicolò Ribaudo
Ashley Claymore
Robin Ricard
Richard Button
Nicolò Ribaudo
Ashley Claymore
July 2022
Well-Formed Unicode Strings Guy Bedford
Bradley Farias
Guy Bedford
Bradley Farias
Michael Ficarra
September 2022

✅ means a pull request for tests was merged.

❓ means there is no pull request for tests yet.

🚧 means a pull request for tests was created, but not merged yet.

Onboarding existing proposals

Proposals that are Stage 1 and above must be transferred to the TC39 GitHub organization for discoverability and archival purposes. To onboard a proposal that lives outside the TC39 organization:

  1. Transfer your repository to the @tc39-transfer organization
  • if you are a TC39 delegate, but not a member of that organization, please contact @LJHarb
  1. One of the chairs (@bterlson, @gesa, @MylesBorins, or @robpalme) will transfer your repository to the TC39 organization the next chance they get.

Note that as part of the onboarding process your repository name may be normalized. Don't worry, repo redirects will continue to work as long as you never create a fork, or a new repository, with the same name - although Github Pages redirects will be broken (please update your links!).