A standard library for JavaScript (JS Party #329)

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Philipp Burckhardt, Athan Reines & the team behind stdlib.io believe in a future in which the web is a preferred environment for numerical computation. They’ve been working toward building that future for over a decade. Thanks to listener, Brian Zelip, Jerod sits down with Philipp to learn all about this excellent effort: where it’s been & where it’s headed.

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Chapters

1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Speakeasy (00:00:39)

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3. Welcoming Philipp (00:03:38)

4. Data Science vs AI (00:04:39)

5. Intro to stdlib.io (00:09:58)

https://stdlib.io

6. How did you build it? (00:18:29)

7. Sponsor: Changelog News (00:22:19)

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8. Breadth of the library (00:23:48)

9. How decomposability works (00:32:45)

10. What people want from a stdlib (00:38:08)

11. Prioritization (00:38:52)

12. ML frameworks above? (00:41:28)

13. Getting sponsors (00:43:32)

14. Waypoints for app devs (00:44:50)

15. Take the survey! (00:47:25)

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16. Closing time (00:48:49)

17. Next up on the pod (00:50:03)