What's happening in TC39 land

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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