171 JSJ Babel with Sebastian McKenzie
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
Categories:
02:28 - Sebastian McKenzie Introduction
02:53 - Babel (Pronunciation Clarification)
05:56 - History
09:14 - The State of Babel
09:59 - Babel and the TC39 Process
11:54 - Features That Can’t Be Transpiled
- Weak Maps and Proxies
13:45 - Readability and Performance Output
18:12 - Plugin Architecture
19:58 - ES6/2015 Feature Implementation
- Blockscoping
- Labels
- Exceptions
- Destructuring
25:49 - The Birth of Babel
26:45 - Babel vs Traceur
28:08 - Future Babel Features
- Code Optimization
- Minification
- Linting
30:15 - The Status of ES2015 and ES2016
31:01 - Browser Support
35:03 - Marketing
35:59 - TypeScript
37:24 - Babel Development and Labor
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