Chris Ball

I went to Rick Waldron‘s talk at Bocoup on The Future of JavaScript (ES6), and made a video recording. Here it is:

Takeaways from the talk for me:

• JavaScript will be getting many new features that make it more attractive to write in — e.g. block scoping, weakmaps, sets, rest and spread parameters, default parameters, fat arrow syntax, and many other uses of syntactic sugar that I recognize from CoffeeScript — but it’ll take a few years before we can use them in client-side code reliably.
• But if you’re writing for Node, you can start using them now with node --harmony.
• Traceur can compile ES6 to ES3.
• Continuum is a full ES6 VM written in ES3.