Inactive proposals are proposals that at one point were presented to the committee but were subsequently abandoned, withdrawn, or rejected.
| Proposal | Champion | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
RegExp.escape |
Domenic Denicola, Benjamin Gruenbaum | Rejected: in favor of exploring a template tag function solution |
| Callable class constructors | Yehuda Katz and Allen Wirfs-Brock | Withdrawn: can be solved with decorators |
Error.isError |
Jordan Harband | Withdrawn: in favor of a future proposal to standardize Error stack traces |
{Set,Map}.prototype.toJSON |
David Bruant and Jordan Harband | Rejected: better solved by a custom replacer function. |
| Typed Objects | Dmitry Lomov, Niko Matsakis | Abandoned. |
| Object enumerables | Leo Balter & John-David Dalton | Rejected |
ArrayBuffer.transfer |
Luke Wagner & Allen Wirfs-Brock | Withdrawn |
| Cancelable Promises | Domenic Denicola | Withdrawn |
| Proposed Grammar change to ES Modules | Bradley Farias | Rejected: No consensus on this specific solution. |
| Dynamic Module Reform | Caridy Patiño | Withdrawn: we decided to preserve the current semantics |
| SIMD.JS - SIMD APIs | Peter Jensen, Yehuda Katz | Stage 1: Start with SIMD in WASM; implementations not pursuing SIMD.js for now. |
See also the stage 0 proposals, active proposals, and finished proposals documents.