--- Title: The Future of JavaScript Subtitle: ES2015, ES2016, and Hopes for ES2017 and Later Category: Tech Date: 2016-03-02 12:30 Summary: > JavaScript (ECMAScript) is in a state of substantial change. And nearly all of those changes make our software development safer and more ergonomic! A short talk covering some of the biggest changes. Tags: [talks, software development, programming languages, javascript] ... I gave a short tech talk at my new employer [Olo] today, covering a number of the changes current and forthcoming in ECMAScript 2015 and later. Alas, I ran out of time in preparation and didn't get to cover everything I wanted---I would have liked very much to cover modules, and to cover fat-arrow-functions in more depth than I did. I'll look forward to hopefully giving further tech talks at Olo in the future, and perhaps giving this one, expanded and finished out a bit, elsewhere. (If you'd like me to give a talk, including this one, just let me know!) In the meantime, you can take a look at the [slides], which I think will be helpful and interesting! [Olo]: http://www.olo.com [slides]: //v4.chriskrycho.com/talks/es-future-olo And yes, there *were* a lot of really delightful _Doctor Who_ references in this talk. Because *of course* there were!