LIVE from JSConf Hawai'i

KBall picks the brains of 4 of the speakers at JSConf Hawai’i to investigate the future of JavaScript and Web Development.

KBall picks the brains of 4 of the speakers at JSConf Hawai’i to investigate the future of JavaScript and Web Development.

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Featuring:

Willian Martins – Twitter, GitHubShawn Wang – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteLin Clark – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteTill Schneidereit – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteKevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

JavaScript language

Pattern Matching (thin arrow operator)
Pipeline Operator
JavaScript language proposal stages
Binary AST
Typed Objects Proposal

WebAssembly

W3C Process
WebAssembly security model
Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast 🎉 (blog post)
Walt | Alternative Syntax for WebAssembly
AssemblyScript

Other References

The event-stream bitcoin wallet hack

What the Panelists are Excited About

PWAs installable on Windows
Concurrent React
WebAssembly GC Integration
WebAssembly usecases

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!