[coke12]

I've had this same cancellation conversation many times with JS programmers. I think it's fair to say there's a need for standardization. Evidence for this need is network request management is really poor in pretty much all JS apps.

[capableweb]

Specifically the case of request management, it's already implemented and available in all browsers practically. It's like four lines of code you have to add/change, to be able to cancel a request. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AbortContro...

Regarding other cases, there are already ways of handling those. I don't think just because many ask about something, doesn't mean it's not currently working.

[coke12]

There are a lot of issues with the ergonomics of AbortController. It's very low level.