In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott review their 2023 predictions and see how they did on ideas like Deno getting hotter, new JS APIs, WASM, Houdini, CSS Container Queries, and more!

Show Notes

• 00:24 Welcome
• 01:18 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
• 02:05 SSR JS sites more the norm
• solidjs.com
• Remix - Build Better Websites
• Next.js by Vercel - The React Framework
• SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined
• Astro
• 04:14 TypeScript Inferred becomes hot
• 05:20 Types In JS?
• ECMAScript proposal for type syntax that is erased - Stage 1
• 07:55 Deno gets hotter
• 11:12 JS runtimes mature
• htmx
• 11:50 We will see a new TS Type Checker written in Rust
• 14:06 New JS APIs
• What’s the status of this project? · Issue #1101 · dudykr/stc
• Wes Bos on X: "Pretty excited about the new JavaScript non-mutating array methods. Currently in stage 3
• tc39/proposals: Tracking ECMAScript Proposals
• JS Fundamentals - Decorators - Syntax #653
• 16:29 Writing towards Winter CG Spec Popular.
• WinterCG
• 17:09 Edge Rendering More Common
• Prettier on X: "We setup a $20k bounty for a rust-based compatible printer with prettier.
• $20k Bounty was Claimed! · Prettier
• 18:09 A new JS framework
• 19:05 Page Transitions API
• 19:51 Rust becomes more popular
• 24:00 More WASM
• Supper Club × WASM, Fastly Edge, and Polyfill.io with Jake Champion - Syntax #643
• FFmpeg
• Fastly
• 25:11 React Beta Docs launch after 5 year dev cycle
• 26:47 We start to see CSS Container Queries in production
• 29:05 CanIUse issues?
• 31:20 CSS Subgrid
• 32:56 More AI
• 34:06 Tooling
• Vite | Next Generation Frontend Tooling
• Announcing Biome | Biome
• Lightning CSS
• Rspack
• Turbopack
• 36:08 People sour on React
• 36:47 People sour on eslint
• 37:16 Houdini does nothing
• CSS Houdini| MDN
• Is Houdini Ready Yet?
• 39:57 How’d we do?
• 40:40 Sick picks

Sick Picks

• Scott: Super Mario Bros.™ Wonder
• Wes: Tineco Pure ONE S11 Cordless Vacuum Cleaner

Shameless Plugs

• Scott: Sentry
• Wes: Wes Bos Courses

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