Episode 013 - Drinking in the present to learn future JavaScript

Published: Aug. 18, 2016, 4:52 a.m.

b"In episode 13 of the Front End Happy Hour podcast, we\\u2019re joined by Jafar Husain from Netflix to talk with us about the future of JavaScript. Jafar is part of the TC-39 committee that helps determine the future specs of ECMAScript. Jafar shares a lot of interesting insights into how the committee works and how a feature makes it's way into the spec. Jafar also talks to us about Observables and cancellable promises.\\n\\nItems mentioned in the episode:\\nTC-39, ECMAScript, Iterators and Generators, Proxies, Observables, Promises, Evan Czaplicki, Yehuda Katz, Rust Language, TypeScript, Elm Language, PureScript, Flow, Jay Phelps, LazyDOM, Tracy Lee\\n\\nGuests:\\nJafar Husain - @jhusain\\n\\nPanelists:\\nRyan Burgess - @burgessdryan\\nJem Young - @JemYoung\\nDerrick Showers - @derrickshowers\\nBrian Holt - @holtbt\\n\\nPicks:\\nJafar Husain - Idris Language\\nRyan Burgess - Status, process, and documents for ECMA262\\nRyan Burgess - Octomore Scotch 07.1\\nJem Young - Morbotron\\nJem Young - Full Stack Toronto\\nDerrick Showers - Glimmer 2 Deep Dive\\nDerrick Showers - Rogue varieties\\nBrian Holt - I Really Like Angular 2 - Trailer for The Jeff Cross Show on Modern Web feat Jafar Husain\\nBrian Holt - Modern Web Podcast"