TC39 proposal: Record and Tuples, the real immutable data structures in JavaScript.

Alberto de Murga

Apr 26·3 min read

const record = #{ prop: 1}; const tuple = #[1, 2, 3] — Records and tuples

One of the misleading use cases for beginners in JavaScript is to create constant arrays and objects. With the introductions of ES6, we got two new declarators: let, for mutable variables, and const, for constants. Many beginners believe that this will make their objects and array immutable, to discover later that they are not. The object or array…