In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about their predictions for 2021!
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Show Notes
02:06 - ESM
- Scott: It’s going to be big
- Wes: Everything going forward should be ESM
05:44 - Wes: Remote work will grow
- Whole new talent pool opens up
- Whole new living situations open up
08:23 - Scott: Deno will grow
11:12 - Wes: Tooling will fade away
14:14 - Scott: Greater usage of other languages to build Javascript
19:35 - Wes: Programming communities will gain traction
23:25 - Scott: More WASM
27:19 - Typescript
- Wes: Typescript will become more popular
- Scott: Tooling will get better
29:37 - React
- Scott:
- Scoped CSS in React will evolve
- SSR and hydration will be better
- Wes:
- People will fall out of love with React
- Or more magic will get added to React
32:52 - Scott: More web component frameworks
33:17 - Scott: Markdown and mdx-like frameworks will skyrocket in use
33:59 - Wes: Gatsby
35:24 - Scott: AR tech will grow
36:38 - Wes: AI will become accessible
- Something as easy as a search result
- RTX Voice
38:43 - VS Code
- Scott:
- It will continue dominating
- Cloud and shared coding env will become better
- Figma
- Wes:
40:18 - CSS
- Wes:
- Color functions
- More use of built-in features
- Scoped CSS
- Scott:
42:39 - Serverless
- Scott:
- Ease of use will get better and better
- Wes:
45:30 - Wes: Enterprise Jamstack will become a thing
46:30 - PWAs might become more popular
- Apple will never want you to go around the app store
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