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168 JSJ The Future of JavaScript with Jafar Husain

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03:04 - Jafar Husain Introduction

  • Twitter
  • GitHub
  • Netflix
  • TC39

    • 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

            • asyncawait

              • 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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