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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