Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "If this ships, it will change javascript forever" video.

As someone who predominately uses C for my work and fun, I was a bit confused at the term `signal` here as that word has a completely different meaning for me. As you went along I thought maybe it was actually message passing by another name, but this is quite frankly weird. It sounds like maybe it'll involve some sort of pointer with reference counting scheme, possibly some mutexes for locking and perhaps doing something similar to copy-on-write to check for changes in values. Although, I'm not sure how they'll be able to efficiently accomplish that because it would seem that it would require tracking changes at multiple points. Perhaps it's just because I've written my own compilers before and am currently writing one for my own language, but I'm curious as to how this will actually be implemented. It really sounds like an attempt to shoehorn in a common compiled language idiom for synchronization of data exchange but with extra steps. However, the most surprising thing about this video is you saying you don't know the word `elide`. I'll assume that was a brain fart because the article did misspell it in a few places.
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