Episode 330: JSJ 326: Conversation with Ember co-creator Tom Dale on Ember 3.0 and the future of Ember

Panel:

Joe Eames
Aimee Knight
AJ ONeal

Special Guests: Tom Dale

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panel talks to Tom Dale about Ember 3.0 and the future of Ember. Tom is the co-creator of Ember and is a principle staff engineer at LinkedIn where he works on a team called Presentation Infrastructure. They talk about being in the customer service role, having a collaborative culture, and all the information on Ember 3.0. They also touch on the tendency towards disposable software, the Ember model, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How Joe met Tom
Programmers as rule breakers
The pressure to conform
Tom intro
Staff engineer at LinkedIn
Customer service role
Having a way to role improvements out to a lot of different people
JavaScript and Ember at LinkedIn
Having a collaborative culture
All about Ember 3.0
Banner feature – there is nothing new
Cracked how you develop software in the open source world that has longevity
Major competition in Backbone previously
The Ember community has never been more vibrant
Tendency towards disposable software
The idea of steady iteration towards improvement
The Ember model
Being different from different frameworks
Ember adoption rates
Python 3
Valuable from a business perspective to use Ember
Ember community being friendly to newbies
How much Ember VS how much JavaScript will a new developer have to learn?
And much, much more!

Links:

Ember
LinkedIn
JavaScript
Backbone
Python
@tomdale
tomdale.net
Tom’s GitHub

Sponsors

Kendo UI
Sentry
Digital Ocean

Picks:

Joe

Framework Summit
Jayne
React sent Evan You a cake

Aimee

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule by Paul Graham

AJ

James Veitch

Tom

JavaScript Tech Talk
Drake’s Ties
Melissa Watson Ellis at Hall Madden