Add queueMicrotask() #3033
Add queueMicrotask() #3033
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Should this perhaps be a feature called "Microtasks"?
Points in favor:
- MDN has a "microtask guide"
- There are quite a lot of questions that use the term (and "macrotask") on Stack Overflow
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If there are no other developer-exposed ways to use microtasks than via the queueMicroTask, then I agree with this suggestion. Let's re-id and re-name this.
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The concept of microtasks is much, much older than queueMicroTask(), so I think it would be confusing to name it just microtasks. IIRC, the concept was formalized when promises were introduced, but there were similar "delay this work until just before we return to the event loop" concepts around before that too.
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The counter argument I can see is that, before queueMicrotask, microtasks where only a concept, or a thing browsers did internally, rather than an API developers can use. If this description is correct, then I don't see much confusion in renaming the feature to microtasks, because that word never really matched with anything devs could do before.
Not a hill I will die on though. Happy to keep the proposed name too.
I remember doing setTimeout(1) years ago, is that how we used to queue microtasks before?
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If there are no other developer-exposed ways to use microtasks than via the queueMicroTask, then I agree with this suggestion. Let's re-id and re-name this.
Co-authored-by: Daniel D. Beck <[email protected]>
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