What is the current status of this proposal?

[Becavalier]

As titled.

Is there any progress on this proposal?

[xtuc]

I can't speak for the proposal's champions but Cloudflare experimented with distributing binary AST instead of JavaScript for compatible eyeballs. We are planning to continue to work on the proposal.

[Zizzamia]

Where can I read more about the Cloudflare experimentation?

[xtuc]

We wrote a blog post https://blog.cloudflare.com/binary-ast/.

[Zizzamia]

This is super interesting! Could binary AST being stored by the Service Worker in the Cache Storage as we do with JS files?
I'm def going to experiment a bit with this proposal, now that I see Cloudflare is investing on it. 😁

[Becavalier]

I saw @syg is one of the champions. May I know is there anything blocking the advancing of this proposal?

[lygstate]

ping it

[akhiljay]

Is there interest from Chrome to implement this?

[lihugang]

So, what is the current status of this proposal? This looks abandoned.
uh.... I am not good in English, please forgive me if I offended.

[vdjeric]

No one is working on it for the last several years

[RReverser]

@vdjeric Probably would be worth to archive the repo (for whoever has the rights to do so) to avoid confusion.

[ljharb]

Proposals often have no work done on them for years, and then champions pick them back up, so inactivity can't be used as a sign of withdrawal.

If the champions (which include @vdjeric and @RReverser, as well as @syg and @Yoric) wish to withdraw the proposal, or step down as champions of it, they'd need to decide that collectively and individually, respectively. Once withdrawn, it would certainly be archived.

[RReverser]

Ah, fair enough.

[kootstra-rene]

Though it is an interesting proposal I can't help but feel this is a solution to bad practises. Keeping the bad practices alive. Having 1+MB JavaScript files are the problem and browser vendors should maybe lower the ranking of those websites or show a banner that the website may perform poorly. That will be a good incentive to fix the large JavaScript files.

For sites with < 200 Kb of JavaScript the benefit of this proposal is limited.