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Off The Main Thread

TC39 Roundup Drama Edition Part II: JS0 and JSSugar

Dec 16, 2024
31:42

In this episode, Surma talks about a presenation-maybe-soon-to-be-a-proposal "JS0", which explores the idea of splitting JavaScript into two specifications: JS0, focusing on security, performance and capabilties, implemented by engines; and JSSugar, focussing on developer productivity and syntactic sugar features implemented by build tools.

Notes & Corrections:
  • Yes, I know, people still do have to step through assembler. But I stand behind the essence of my point: The debug symbols for compiled languages feel very reliable. We should be able to at least match that reliability in JavaScript.
  • Guy Bedford currently works at Fastly.
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