ECMAScript proposals

ECMAScript Internationalization API Specification proposals

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 This list contains only stage 2 proposals and higher that have not yet been withdrawn/rejected, or become finished.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}
`globalThis`	Jordan Harband	Jordan Harband	✅	_{November 2018}
Legacy RegExp features in JavaScript	Claude Pache	Mark Miller Claude Pache	✅	_May 2017
`BigInt`	Daniel Ehrenberg	Daniel Ehrenberg	✅	_June 2019
`import.meta`	Domenic Denicola	Domenic Denicola	✅	_{September 2017}
Private instance methods and accessors	Daniel Ehrenberg	Daniel Ehrenberg Kevin Gibbons	❓	_{January 2019}
Class Public Instance Fields & Private Instance Fields	Daniel Ehrenberg Kevin Gibbons	Daniel Ehrenberg Jeff Morrison Kevin Smith Kevin Gibbons	❓	_{January 2019}
Static class fields and private static methods	Daniel Ehrenberg Kevin Gibbons Jeff Morrison Kevin Smith	Shu-Yu Guo Daniel Ehrenberg	❓	_{January 2019}
Hashbang Grammar	Bradley Farias	Bradley Farias	✅	_{November 2018}
Numeric separators	Sam Goto Rick Waldron	Sam Goto Rick Waldron	✅	_June 2019
Top-level `await`	Myles Borins	Myles Borins	❓	_June 2019
WeakRefs	Dean Tribble	Dean Tribble Mark Miller Till Schneidereit	✅	_June 2019
Nullish coalescing Operator	Gabriel Isenberg	Gabriel Isenberg Justin Ridgewell Daniel Rosenwasser	❓	_{July 2019}
RegExp Match array offsets	Ron Buckton	Ron Buckton	❓	_{July 2019}
Optional Chaining	Gabriel Isenberg Claude Pache Dustin Savery	Gabriel Isenberg Dustin Savery Justin Ridgewell Daniel Rosenwasser	❓	_{July 2019}

Stage 2

Proposal	Author	Champion	_{Last Presented}
`function.sent` metaproperty	Allen Wirfs-Brock	贺师俊 (HE Shi-Jun)	_{July 2019}
Decorators	Daniel Ehrenberg	Yehuda Katz Brian Terlson Daniel Ehrenberg	_{January 2019}
`throw` expressions	Ron Buckton	Ron Buckton	_{January 2018}
`Atomics.waitAsync`	Lars Hansen	Shu-yu Guo Lars Hansen	_June 2019
Function implementation hiding	Domenic Denicola Michael Ficarra	Domenic Denicola Michael Ficarra	_May 2018
New Set methods	Michał Wadas Sathya Gunasekaran	Sathya Gunasekaran	_{January 2019}
Realms	Caridy Patiño Jean-Francois Paradis	Dave Herman Mark Miller Caridy Patiño	_May 2018
`ArrayBuffer.prototype.transfer`	Domenic Denicola	Domenic Denicola	_July 2018
Sequence properties in Unicode property escapes	Mathias Bynens	Mathias Bynens	_{September 2018}
Temporal	Maggie Pint Matt Johnson Philipp Dunkel	Maggie Pint Philipp Dunkel Brian Terlson	_{September 2018}
collection normalization	Bradley Farias	Bradley Farias	_{January 2019}
`String.prototype.replaceAll`	Peter Marshall Jakob Gruber Mathias Bynens	Mathias Bynens	_March 2019
`for-in` mechanics	Kevin Gibbons	Kevin Gibbons	_June 2019
Array.isTemplateObject	Mike Samuel	Mike Samuel	_June 2019
`Promise.any`	Mathias Bynens Kevin Gibbons Sergey Rubanov	Mathias Bynens	_{July 2019}
Iterator helpers	Gus Caplan	Domenic Denicola	_{July 2019}
Explicit Resource Management	Ron Buckton	Ron Buckton	_{July 2019}

✅ 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.

Contributing new proposals

Please see Contributing to ECMAScript for the most up-to-date information on contributing proposals to this standard.

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:

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@bterlson, @gesa, or @codehag will transfer your repository to the TC39 organization the next chance they get.