In episode 13 of the Front End Happy Hour podcast, we’re joined by Jafar Husain from Netflix to talk with us about the future of JavaScript. Jafar is part of the TC-39 committee that helps determine the future specs of ECMAScript. Jafar shares a lot of interesting insights into how the committee works and how a feature makes it's way into the spec. Jafar also talks to us about Observables and cancellable promises.

Items mentioned in the episode:

TC-39, ECMAScript, Iterators and Generators, Proxies, Observables, Promises, Evan Czaplicki, Yehuda Katz, Rust Language, TypeScript, Elm Language, PureScript, Flow, Jay Phelps, LazyDOM, Tracy Lee

Guests:

Jafar Husain - @jhusain

Panelists:

Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan

Jem Young - @JemYoung

Derrick Showers - @derrickshowers

Brian Holt - @holtbt

Picks:

Jafar Husain - Idris Language

Ryan Burgess - Status, process, and documents for ECMA262

Ryan Burgess - Octomore Scotch 07.1

Jem Young - Morbotron

Jem Young - Full Stack Toronto

Derrick Showers - Glimmer 2 Deep Dive

Derrick Showers - Rogue varieties

Brian Holt - I Really Like Angular 2 - Trailer for The Jeff Cross Show on Modern Web feat Jafar Husain

Brian Holt - Modern Web Podcast