SE-Radio Episode 248: Axel Rauschmayer on JavaScript and ECMAScript 6

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.

Venue: ThoughtWorks Werkstatt, Berlin during the JSConf week

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

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