What's happening in TC39 land (JS Party #140)

KBall MCs as Jordan tells us about exciting JavaScript updates that are on the way, Amal takes us all to school digging into the details, and Emma makes a surprise on-air proposal.

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Featuring:

• Jordan Harband – Website, GitHub, X
• Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
• Emma Bostian – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Segment 1

• TC39
• Babel
• ES5 Shim
• ES6 Shim
• Records and Tuples proposal
• Decorators proposal

Segment 2

• Object.values and Object.entries
• Error.isError proposal
• JavaScript Realms
• globalThis proposal
• Sindre Sorhus
• Berenstain vs Berenstein controversy
• globalThis naming constraints doc
• #SmooshGate FAQ

Segment 3

• Temporal proposal
• Moment.js
• Builtin modules proposal

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