Do you need to polyfill promises?

[matthewmueller]

It seems like this library depends on window.Promise being available. Is that true? Are there any other requirements for this library?

[DanielRosenwasser]

Yes, the library expects an implementation or a polyfill. If you use async iterators, you'll need Symbol.asyncIterator.

[matthewmueller]

Okay good to know! It'd be great to either document that somewhere or even better provide the polyfills via tslib (npm's promise-polyfill is tiny).

Currently it's a bit confusing when the target in tsconfig says "es3" and the typescript language permits async, but then your code doesn't work in IE11.

I think typescript providing a stable language with cross-browser support would be sooo huge.

[NeoLegends]

even better provide the polyfills via tslib

I am absolutely against that. Please polyfill yourself according to the browser targets you want to support, but don't put the additional library bloat on everyone by automatically polyfilling everything.

[fis-cz]

Just opened another discussion, what should be filled or polyfilled by ts and what should not.
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