ESNext: Proposals to look forward to (ESNEXT Conf)

Happening right now is ESNEXT Conf a fully remote conference exploring the future of JavaScript and the web. When I saw the CFP float by, it sounded like a perfect match for my talk “ESNext: Proposals to look forward to”. Thankfully the organisers – Fred and Drew from Pika – also felt that ways and the put me in the line-up.

With the yearly ECMAScript releases (ES2015..ES2020) of a lot of things have changed in JavaScript-land, and there’s even more to come. This talk takes a look at a few of the newest (ES2020) and some of the upcoming ECMAScript features, which (hopefully) will become part of the ECMAScript Language Specification in the near future.

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Talk Slides

The slides are up on slidr.io, and also embedded below:

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Talk Outline

• ECMAScript History and Timeline
• TC39: Info on TC39, what they do, and how they work.
• ESNext Proposal: Field Declarations
• ES2020 Feature: Optional Chaining
• ES2020 Feature: Null Coalescing
• ESNext Proposal: Logical Assignment
• ES2020 Feature: Dynamic Imports
• ESNext Proposal: Decimal
• ESNext Proposal: Cancellation API (+ Mention of AbortController)
• ESNext Proposal: Declarations In Conditionals
• ES2019 Feature: Object.fromEntries()
• ESNext Proposal: Slice Notation
• ESNext Proposal: Pattern Matching
• Fin.

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Talk Video

Once the video has been released, I’ll update this post to include it. Here it is:

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Thanks to the organisers for having me, and thanks to the attendees for coming to see me. I hope you all had fun attending this talk. I know I had making it (and whilst bringing it forward). A shame we couldn’t meet in person though, perhaps at a next edition 😉