Polaris, Vite, and Exploring the Future of Ember with Jared Galanis and Preston Sego

Sep 7, 2023

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Recorded at EmberConf from the heart of the Multnomah Whiskey Library with Jared Galanis, Software Engineer on the Ember Learning Team, and Preston Sego aka NullVoxPopuli, Software Artificer at AuditBoard, Chuck and Robbie delve into the evolution and future of the Ember framework.

Though Ember isn’t often in the spotlight for being cutting-edge, Jared and Preston unravel the exciting developments in the Ember ecosystem. The conversation centers around Ember Polaris, the eagerly awaited next edition of the Ember framework. Preston explains the concept of "editions" in semantic versioning and how Polaris aims to provide a cohesive story for integrating new features. They also discuss Ember's shift to Vite as a modern build system, resulting in improved performance, startup time, and enhanced plugin ecosystem. Jared sheds light on the Ember learning team and his background in front-end and back-end development. He reinforces Ember's commitment to offering smooth upgrade paths for applications over the years, giving developers a sense of security and longevity.

In this episode, Jared and Preston talk to Robbie and Chuck about the upcoming release of Ember Polaris and its compatibility with Vite, the unique reactivity primitives of Ember, and how changes can modernize the Ember framework while ensuring long-term app stability.

Key Takeaways

[00:29] - Intro to Jared and Preston.
[02:32] - A whiskey review: Willett Straight Rye Whiskey.
[14:50] - Tech hot takes.
[25:25] - Jared and Preston’s favorite programming language.
[27:29] - New developments in Ember, including Polaris.
[39:44] - A whiskey review: Four Roses Single Barrel.
[46:45] - Preston’s opinion on Glimmer.
[56:26] - Chuck, Robbie, Preston, and Jared discuss gaming.

Quotes

[18:58] - “One thing that I’ve appreciated about Tailwind is that it has done a better job of teaching people actually CSS than where people go to learn CSS.” ~ Preston Sego

[30:07] - “It’s exciting to see Ember moving towards being able to use standardized build systems that are used widely throughout Javascript.” ~ Jared Galanis

[52:34] - “People in the React ecosystem are perfectly fine with half-baked things and are willing to try an idea and run with it in their production code.” ~ Preston Sego

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