168 JSJ The Future of JavaScript with Jafar Husain

03:04 - Jafar Husain Introduction

Twitter
GitHub
Netflix
TC39

03:29 - The Great Name Debate (ES6, ES7 = ES2015, ES2016!!)

05:35 - The Release Cycle

What This Means for Browsers

08:37 - Babel and ECMAScript

09:50 - WebAssembly

13:01 - Google’s NACL

13:23 - Performance > Features?

ES6 Feature Performance (JavaScript Weekly Article)
Features Implemented as Polyfills (Why Bother?)

20:12 - TC39

24:22 - New Features

Decorators

Performance Benefit?

28:53 -Transpilers

34:48 - Object.observe()

37:51 - Immutable Types

45:32 - Structural Types

47:11 - Symbols

48:58 - Observables

52:31 - Async Functions

asyncawait

57:31 - Rapid Fire Round - When New Feature Will Be Released in ES2015 or ES2016

let - 15
for...of - 15
modules - 15
destructuring - 15
promises - 15
default function argument expressions - 15
asyncawait - 16

Picks

ES6 and ES7 on The Web Platform Podcast (AJ)

Binding to the Cloud with Falcor Jafar Husain (AJ)

Asynchronous JavaScript at Netflix by Jafar Husain @ MountainWest Ruby 2014 (AJ)

Let's Encrypt on Raspberry Pi (AJ)

adventures in haproxy: tcp, tls, https, ssh, openvpn (AJ)

Let's Encrypt through HAProxy (AJ)

Mandy's Fiancé's Video Game Fund (AJ)

The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect (Dave)

The Majority Illusion (Dave)

[Egghead.io] Asynchronous Programming: The End of The Loop (Aimee)

Study: You Really Can 'Work Smarter, Not Harder' (Aimee)

Elm (Jamison)

The Katering Show (Jamison)

Sharding Tweet (Jamison)

The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (Joe)

mdn.io (Joe)

Aftershokz AS500 Bluez 2 Open Ear Wireless Stereo Headphones (Chuck)

Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose: The Science of What Motivates Us, Animated (Jafar)

Netflix (Jafar)

quiescent (Jafar)

Clojurescript (Jafar)

Special Guest: Jafar Husain.