What's next in JavaScript (a TC39 update) (JS Party #305)

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.

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:

Daniel Ehrenberg – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHubAmal Hussein – Twitter, GitHubNick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteChristopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

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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