LIVE from JSConf Hawai'i (JS Party #63)

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 – GitHub, X
• Shawn Wang – Website, GitHub, X
• Lin Clark – Website, GitHub, X
• Till Schneidereit – Website, GitHub, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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!