What's next in JavaScript (a TC39 update)

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Daniel Ehrenberg (software engineer at Bloomberg, web standards author / champion & VP of ECMA International) joins us to discuss new features that have landed in JavaScript and to preview what’s cooking in various standards bodies across the web platform.

We cover a wide array (get it?) of topics from improvements to built-ins such as Promises, Maps & Sets, as well as new primitives like Records, Tuples & Temporal. We round out this epic discussion with a look at cross-project standardization efforts like WinterCG, open source sustainability & how Bloomberg’s open source program gives back in important projects in the web ecosystem.

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Featuring:

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Show Notes:

Correction: Near the end, Dan misspoke when said the Bloomberg FOSS Fund was done in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies. It was actually done together with Bloomberg’s Corporate Philanthropy team.

• TC39’s Active Proposals (Stage 1, 2, 3)
• TC39’s Finished Proposals (Stage 4)
• TC39 Website
• ECMA262 - Webview of the latest published specification of ECMAScript (aka JavaScript)
• ECMA262 GitHub Repo
• WinterCG
• CycloneDX
• W3C Web Performance Working Group
• Iterator Helpers Proposal
• Record and Tuple Proposal
• Temporal Proposal
• Temporal Polyfills
• Decorators Proposal
• Set Methods Proposal
• Type Annotations Proposal
• Module Expressions Proposal
• Array Grouping Proposal
• Promise with Resolvers Proposal
• Error Cause Proposal
• Test262 Github Repo
• Source Map Spec Proposal
• TC39-T4 - a new TC39 task group to standard source maps
• TC53 - ECMAScript modules for embedded systems
• Perf.Now Conference
• Node Conf EU Conference
• Dan’s talk on Async Context at this year’s Node Conf EU
• Igalia
• Bocoup
• Sentry’s blog post on recent funding of their OSS dependencies
• Bloomberg’s Terminal
• Bloomberg Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Launches FOSS Contributor Fund

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Chapters

1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Socket (00:00:39)

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3. Welcome, friends (00:04:21)

4. Welcome, Dan (00:05:28)

5. What is TC39? (00:09:44)

6. Starting with Stage 4 (00:22:18)

7. Immutable types (00:25:41)

8. Moar help methods! (00:32:02)

9. Promise.withResolvers (00:38:26)

10. Array grouping (00:46:19)

11. Error cause (00:49:28)

12. Sponsor: React Jam (00:51:41)

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13. Moving on to Stage 3 (00:52:30)

14. Temporal (00:58:21)

15. Switching gears to Stage 2 (01:04:30)

16. Records & Tuples (01:04:50)

17. Module expressions (01:07:28)

18. Async context (01:12:44)

19. WinterCG's scope (01:24:13)

20. TG4 source maps (01:24:48)

21. Open source sustainability (01:29:34)

22. Closing time (01:37:45)

23. Next up on the pod (01:39:48)