Temporal API

[Ghostbird]

Given that Temporal is as stage 3 proposal now, and ECMAScript engine implementers are currently working to implement it¹. It would be very nice if we could work on that in Jint too.

As a starting point here's a Markdown Temporal API to do list template

Footnotes

1. … SpiderMonkey passes 96% of the tests. V8 and LibJS three quarters. JavaScriptCore 40%, and Boa is at 23% and they have either landed since the time that I wrote this slide or are still about to land a change that would get them to 32%. …
   103rd TC39 Meeting | 30th July 2024 # Temporal update & bug fixes

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[lahma]

That's a huge undertaking. Would you like to start implementing it incrementally? The https://github.com/tc39/test262 suite already has test cases for Temporal and they can be enabled by editing https://github.com/sebastienros/jint/blob/main/Jint.Tests.Test262/Test262Harness.settings.json and re-generating the test suite.

[Ghostbird]

Ah, that's very nice! I'll have a look. I can't promise that I can sink many hours into this, but we'll need to start somewhere.