168 JSJ The Future of JavaScript with Jafar Husain

JavaScript Jabber - A podcast by AJ ONeal, Charles Max Wood, Aimee Knight, Dan Shappir, Steve Edwards, Christopher Buecheler, Dave Smith, JC Hiatt, Chris Ferdinandi, Steve Emmerich, Joe Eames, Aaron Frost, Tim Caswell, Cory House, Christian Liebel, Ward Bell, Tracy Lee, Jamison D... - Tuesdays

03:04 - Jafar Husain Introduction

03:29 - The Great Name Debate (ES6, ES7 = ES2015, ES2016!!)

05:35 - The Release Cycle

  • What This Means for Browsers

08:37 - Babel and ECMAScript

09:50 - WebAssembly

13:01 - Google’s NACL

13:23 - Performance > Features?

20:12 - TC39

24:22 - New Features

  • Decorators
    • Performance Benefit?

28:53 -Transpilers

34:48 - Object.observe()

37:51 - Immutable Types

45:32 - Structural Types

47:11 - Symbols

48:58 - Observables

52:31 - Async Functions

57:31 - Rapid Fire Round - When New Feature Will Be Released in ES2015 or ES2016

  • let - 15
  • for...of - 15
  • modules - 15
  • destructuring - 15
  • promises - 15
  • default function argument expressions - 15
  • asyncawait - 16

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Let's Encrypt through HAProxy (AJ)
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The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect (Dave)
The Majority Illusion (Dave)
[Egghead.io] Asynchronous Programming: The End of The Loop (Aimee)
Study: You Really Can 'Work Smarter, Not Harder' (Aimee)
Elm (Jamison)
The Katering Show (Jamison)
Sharding Tweet (Jamison)
The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (Joe)
mdn.io (Joe)
Aftershokz AS500 Bluez 2 Open Ear Wireless Stereo Headphones (Chuck)
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quiescent (Jafar)
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