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Observed mentions: 2012-04-30 19:25:30 UTC to 2014-10-24 14:58:07 UTC.

012012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 20122012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 20132013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 2014

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Apr 20122012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20122012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 20122012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Jan 20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20142014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 20142014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Oct 20142014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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malandrew·Oct 24, 2014
Why not use type annotations to accomplish this? Do we really need another compile to JavaScript language for something that did not require changing the language syntax? There is no reason that a similar project could not have been made via smaller modules using comment annotations. This project really should be at least two projets: (1) one npm module for parsing the type signatures with the line numbers of the functions it applies to. (2) one module that takes in that intermediary representation and performs the AST transform for wrapping the functions. I don't see why this couldn't have been accomplished with: (1) the doctrine module [0] for parsing JSDoc comment blocks before functions OR a custom module for recognizing a custom comment delimiter like //+ or //! followed by the type annotation such as Haskell's type d
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eclaration format. (2) a module for parsing closure compiler JSDoc type signatures (3) the racket-style higher order contracts module [1] for a way to do run-time checking (3) a module consisting of all the possible permutations of higher order type checking functions based on rho-contracts (4) the node-falafel module [2] for performing the actual AST transform that wraps those contract functions around the function described by the JSdoc comment. Furthermore, this approach of breaking this up in to modules allows multiple people to propose alternative syntaxes for this for consideration in future versions of ECMAScript. I wouldn't be surprised if sweet.js could also be used for those syntax approaches that go beyond comment-based annotations and involve modifying the syntax of the language itself. For those that built this at Google, please please please consider breaking this down into smaller composable modules. I'd love to be able to play with the subcomponents of this myself without having to adopt yet another language that doesn't parse with off the shelf tools [4]. [0] https://github.com/Constellation/doctrine [1] https://github.com/sefaira/rho-contracts.js [2] https://github.com/substack/node-falafel [3] http://sweetjs.org/ [4] See JSX for the clusterfuck[6] that results when you add yet another format that needs to be parsed in a unique way with no real benefit that couldn't be accomplished just as easily without fucking with the standard language syntax. See Wadler's Law [5] [5] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Wadler's_Law [6] https://www.npmjs.org/package/esprima-fb
In AtScript Primer
nwinter·Feb 16, 2014
I've had to do a lot of this recently for CodeCombat's transpiler, Aether: https://github.com/codecombat/aether – it uses Esprima, Acorn, JSHint, and a bunch of other JS tools. There's a ton of great stuff out there, and it's easy to put them together since they all operate on the Mozilla SpiderMonkey Parser API abstract syntax tree format. I like node-falafel better than estraverse, which is more concise to use: https://github.com/substack/node-falafel If anyone likes this stuff and wants to write an open-source, in-browser parser from another language like Python, Haskell, or Ruby to the Mozilla AST format, we'd love to make it worth your while. See https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/issues/72 and then email me to work out an arrangement.
In Building JavaScript Tools You Didn't Think Were Possible
cjm·May 11, 2012
request - https://github.com/mikeal/request jsontool - https://github.com/trentm/json mocha - https://github.com/visionmedia/mocha stream - http://nodejs.org/api/stream.html txn - https://github.com/iriscouch/txn follow - https://github.com/iriscouch/follow browserify - https://github.com/substack/node-browserify fleet - https://github.com/substack/fleet seaport - https://github.com/substack/seaport underscore - https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore node_redis - https://github.com/mranney/node_redis node-gyp - https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp cookies - https://github.com/jed/cookies node-falafel - http://github.com/substack/node-falafel routes - https://github.com/aaronblohowiak/routes.js negotiator - https://github.com/federomero/negotiator marked - https://github.com/chjj/marked JSONStream - https://github.com/dominictarr/J
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SONStream tap - https://github.com/isaacs/node-tap event-stream - https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream
In Our favorite node.js modules
cjm·Apr 30, 2012
Node.Philly - http://www.youtube.com/nodephilly dominode - https://github.com/maxogden/dominode browser-stream - https://github.com/dominictarr/browser-stream cdir - https://github.com/hij1nx/cdir crypto-browserify - https://github.com/dominictarr/crypto-browserify Stream vs. Callback vs. EventEmitter - http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/7... node-disorder - https://github.com/substack/node-disorder OAuth with Request vs Passport vs EveryAuth Mikeal's TC39 Post - http://www.mikealrogers.com/posts/tc-thirty-what.html npm-www - https://github.com/isaacs/npm-www Node.js 0.8 Milestones NodeConf - http://www.nodeconf.com/ TacoConf - http://tacoconf.com/ node-falafel - http://github.com/substack/node-falafel LXJS - http://lxjs.org Testling - http://testling.com
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