[Weekend Drop] The Third Age of JS on JSParty

Listen to JSParty: https://changelog.com/jsparty/226

Reactathon talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGnlBU3K_eM

In 2020, Shawn (swyx) Wang wrote:

Every 10 years there is a changing of the guard in JavaScript. I think we have just started a period of accelerated change that could in thge future be regarded as the Third Age of JavaScript.

We’re now in year three of this third age and Swyx joins us to look back at what he missed, look around at what’s happening today, and look forward at what might be coming next.

Notes & Links

• Reactathon
• swyx’s talk at Reactathon
• The Third Age of JavaScript
• Lydia Hallie’s talk on rendering patterns
• analytics.usa.gov
• The Birth and Death of JavaScript
• The Rise of WebAssembly (Infoworld)
• Ryan Dahl on JavaScript containers
• swyx on The Changelog #467
• The other thing I like about esbuild is that it’s a static Go binary, so I feel more confident that I’ll be able to get it to work in the future than with tool written in Javascript, just because I understand the Javascript ecosystem