Inactive proposals are proposals that at one point were presented to the committee but were subsequently abandoned, withdrawn, or rejected.
| Proposal | Champion | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| RegExp.escape | Domenic Denicola, Benjamin Gruenbaum | Rejected: in favor of exploring a template tag function solution |
| Callable class constructors | Yehuda Katz and Allen Wirfs-Brock | Withdrawn: can be solved with decorators |
| Error.isError | Jordan Harband | Withdrawn: in favor of a future proposal to standardize Error stack traces |
| Set/Map.prototype.toJSON | David Bruant and Jordan Harband | Rejected: better solved by a custom replacer function. |
| Typed Objects | Dmitry Lomov, Niko Matsakis | Abandoned. |
| Object enumerables | Leo Balter & John-David Dalton | Rejected |
| ArrayBuffer.transfer | Luke Wagner & Allen Wirfs-Brock | Withdrawn |
| Cancelable Promises | Domenic Denicola | Withdrawn |
| Proposed Grammar change to ES Modules | Bradley Farias | Rejected: No consensus on this specific solution. |
See also the stage 0 proposals, active proposals, and finished proposals documents.