The Jade 2025 release focuses on modernising the developer experience and helping you build faster, smarter, and more scalable applications.
When JADE started out there was the intention that the language would be simple enough that novice developers could code in it and understand it. This was the reason for not including "advanced" concepts like a ++ operator, or a switch statement.
Now that the remaining people using the language are actually professional developers, rather than novices, it would be nice to add more syntactic sugar:
++ and -- operators
switch/case statement
ternary operator
try/catch/finally block
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John Richards 7/11/2017 2:21:48 PM These enhancements are being considered as part of a larger review of the language and compiler. Carsten Schill 28/09/2017 8:00:00 AM plus - block scope variables - variable initialization at definition |
+1 For compound assignment operators:
+=
-=
*=
/=
Not to forget other similar compiler enhancements like:
value += 5;
value += "append this text";
being able to create new instances of classes within parameters, and not having to exclusively declaring a local variable for new instantiations.