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Language Features in Hermes

Hermes plans to target ECMAScript 2015 (ES6), with some carefully considered exceptions.

Supported

  • Symbols (including most well-known Symbols)
  • Iteration (with [Symbol.iterator])
  • for..of loops
  • Array spread
  • Object rest/spread
  • Shorthand property and computed property on object literals
  • Destructuring assignment (with array and object "rest" properties)
  • Template string literals
  • Generators (function* and yield)
  • TypedArrays
  • Arrow functions
  • Optional chaining and nullish coalescing (?. and ??)
  • Reflection (Reflect and Proxy) starting from v0.7.0
  • ES6 Promise (with incompatibilities documented below)
  • All ES6 JS library functions
    • Set/Map
    • WeakSet/WeakMap
    • ES6 String searching functions
    • ES6 Array searching functions

In Progress

  • let and const (block scoped variables, with support for the temporal dead zone)
  • Classes and method definitions
  • ES modules (import and export)
  • Intl API glue for Android has been added, in order to enable community contribution of a complete, spec-compliant implementation.
  • Async function (async and await).
  • Symbol.prototype.description (it's not fully spec-conformant yet. Symbol().description should be undefined but it's currently '').

Excluded From Support

  • Realms
  • with statements
  • Local mode eval() (use and introduce local variables)
  • Symbol.species and its interactions with JS library functions
  • use of constructor property when creating new Arrays in Array.prototype methods
  • Symbol.unscopables (Hermes does not support with)
  • Other features added to ECMAScript after ES6 not listed under "Supported"

Miscellaneous Incompatibilities

  • Function.prototype.toString cannot show source because Hermes executes from bytecode
  • arguments changes in non-strict mode will not sync with named parameters
  • Promise is implemented by pre-compiling the JS polyfill from RN as the internal bytecode to preserve the current interoperation, hence its conformance to the spec is up to conformance of the polyfill.
    • In case you want to bring in your own Promise and opt-out Hermes', you can turn it off by passing -Xes6-promise=0 in CLI or setting withES6Promise(false) in the runtime configs.
    • N.B. ES6 Promise does not include Promise.allSettled (ES2020) and Promise.any (Stage 4).