Is JavaScript Becoming PHP? - Lately in JavaScript podcast episode 54

By Manuel Lemos

EcmaScript 6 added many features that seem to make JavaScript code based based on ES6 can make it look more like to PHP. That was one conclusion reached by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 54 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

They also talked about BabelJS project that allows running EcmaScript 6 based code run on browsers that are still based on EcmaScript 5, strategies to deal with multiple conflicting AJAX calls and fixing your PHP code to deal with parallel AJAX requests, simple inheritance in EcmaScript 5 based JavaScript, and how to detect if your PHP code was minified.

Listen to the podcast now, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting JavaScript topics.