Venue: ThoughtWorks Werkstatt, Berlin during the JSConf week
Johannes Thönes talks to author and speaker Axel Rauschmayer about JavaScript and ECMAScript 6. They first talk about JavaScript’s origin and history. They discuss the standardization of ECMAScript and the version history. Then, they dive into the key concept of JavaScript as a language and explain the new features coming into the language with the ECMAScript 6 standard: modules, classes, maps and sets, promises, generators, proxies, and weak maps.
Show Notes
Related Links:
- Episode 230: Shubhra Kar on NodeJS https://www.se-radio.net/2015/06/episode-230-shubhra-khar-on-nodejs/
- Brendan Eich’s website https://brendaneich.com/
- ECMAScript version history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#Versions
- Episode 108: Simon Peyton Jones on Functional Programming and Haskell https://www.se-radio.net/2008/08/episode-108-simon-peyton-jones-on-functional-programming-and-haskell/
- WebWorkers http://www.w3.org/TR/workers/
- ECMAScript 6 standard http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm
- asm.js http://asmjs.org/
- WebAssembly Community Group https://www.w3.org/community/webassembly/
- CommonJS http://www.commonjs.org/
- AMD (Asynchronous Module Definition) https://github.com/amdjs/amdjs-api/blob/master/AMD.md
- ECMAScript 6 Compatibility Table https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
- Babel JavaScript compiler https://babeljs.io/
- Speaking JavaScript http://speakingjs.com
- Exploring ES6 http://exploringjs.com/
- Axel Rauschmayer’s blog http://www.2ality.com
- Axel Rauschmayer’s company http://ecmanauten.de
- Axel Rauschmayer on Twitter @rauschma
Great Show guys! It was very nice to hear Axel besides just reading his blog 🙂 I enjoyed to hear comparisons on OOP and FP (Java and JavaScript on inheritance), new features of ES2015 especially real use of generators.
Keep up the good work.
This is my favorite SE Radio episode yet, Axel is super knowledgable!
Great show, loved your summary about the top most valuable features from ECMAccript 6
Very informative, as always. I have been working with JavaScript for quite a while, but there´s a lot o point that I simply ignored, and this podcast really opened up my eyes to several aspects of the ECMAScript standard. Thank you!
Great episode