[Replacement]: `setimmediate` and `set-immediate-shim`

[gameroman]

Package to replace

setimmediate and set-immediate-shim

Suggested replacement(s)

setImmediate

Manifest type

native (replaceable by a built-in platform feature)

Rationale

polyfill for old Node.js versions

Availability

Node.js v0.9.1

[zloirock]

setImmediate is not available natively in most engines.

[joaopedrodcf]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/setImmediate

Yeah its deprecated and non standard so in my opinion we shouldn't replace

[gameroman]

It's a polyfill for old Node.js versions, not for browsers in the first place

[43081j]

i think i agree with @joaopedrodcf / @zloirock here.

it looks like setImmediate was proposed to be supported across all browsers, but that never happened. so in the end, Node is the only one that has it.

although most consumers will be node-only, these two libraries seem to be trying to provide it cross-platform rather than filling in for node.

it may be better to create an ecosystem issue for migrating off both of these libraries. that way, we can just find the large consumers and use the native Node setImmediate