JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Applying the magic of compilers to the frontend

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KBall and Chad Hietala meet up at JSConf and talk about compilers for the frontend, Ember’s binary opcodes, webassembly, and the future of performance optimization for the web.

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    • Featuring:

    • Chad Hietala – GitHub, X
    • Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

    Show Notes:

    Performance gains from compilers in JavaScript:

    • Performance gains from switching to Closure Compiler

      • Glimmer

      • The Glimmer Binary Experience
      • The Glimmer VM: Boots Fast and Stays Fast
      • Experiments porting Glimmer VM pieces to WASM

        • The performance costs of parse/compile:

        • The Cost of JavaScript

          • Precompilation:

          • Svelte
          • Prepack

            • Moving sourcemaps to webassembly:

            • Oxidizing Source Maps with Rust and WebAssembly

              • A11Y:

              • JSParty: A11y is your ally
              • Reach Router
              • Ember A11y

                • Opportunities for Angular, Vue, etc

                • Advantages of Angular Templates

                  • Ember

                  • The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks
                  • Github Stars !== Usage: React is still blowing Vue and Angular Away
                  • issue: Latest version of angular-cli shows ember-cli help
                  • #dadt (Dojo already did that)
                  • Ember RFCs

                    • Other Linkedin Projects:

                    • CSS Blocks
                    • Kafka

                      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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