168 JSJ The Future of JavaScript with Jafar Husain
Published: July 15, 2015
168 JSJ The Future of JavaScript with Jafar Husain
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Show Notes
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?
- ES6 Feature Performance (JavaScript Weekly Article)
- Features Implemented as Polyfills (Why Bother?)
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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Special Guest: Jafar Husain.