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Re:JavaScript once had a JSX-like syntax called E4X by abalone on Saturday March 18, 2017 @05:55PM (#13903711)
You're thinking of MXML. Different thing.
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Re:JavaScript once had a JSX-like syntax called E4X by synja on Saturday March 18, 2017 @06:01PM (#13903739)
Nope. E4X was inline XML and it has been in AS3 for many many years.

Sad to see that all these great and convenient language features will take years (or never) to reach JS now that we voluntarily handcuffed ourselves to standards based tech just to satisfy the vendetta of a dead man.

But at least Flash is dead, right?

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Re:JavaScript once had a JSX-like syntax called E4X by MattRix on Saturday March 18, 2017 @06:44PM (#13903877)
The post you're responding to was talking about the markup language used for Flex, which was MXML, not E4X.
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