Is there a way to hint a deftype field so that it will not be renamed by the closure compiler? eg something like (deftype MyType [^js myFieldThatWillNotBeRenamed]) (which doesn’t work)

@mhuebert doesn't this happen when you use that field somewhere with (.-myFieldThatWillNotBeRenamed ^js (MyType. "foo")) - at least with shadow-cljs this seems to be the case

@borkdude yeah I would expect that to work

I have a use case where I wouldn’t otherwise have a reason to access or set it in my code

(using a deftype as a react ref, which expects a “current” property)

needless to say probably, but usually a protocol is the way to access stuff from deftypes

or you could turn it into a record

@mhuebert externs work and have always worked

my.ns.MyType.myFieldThatWillNotBeRenamed;

also got it to work like this, by using (set! (.-currentThing ^js o)) inside the deftype (instead of just currentThing)

right that generates Object.currentThing; export for you