LIVE from JSConf Hawai'i
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KBall picks the brains of 4 of the speakers at JSConf Hawai’i to investigate the future of JavaScript and Web Development.

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Featuring:

• Willian Martins – Twitter), GitHub)
• Shawn Wang – Twitter), GitHub), Website)
• Lin Clark – Twitter), GitHub), Website)
• Till Schneidereit – Twitter), GitHub), Website)
• Kevin Ball – Twitter), GitHub), LinkedIn), Website)

Show Notes:

JavaScript language

• Pattern Matching (thin arrow operator))

• Pipeline Operator)

• JavaScript language proposal stages)

• Binary AST)

• Typed Objects Proposal)

WebAssembly

• W3C Process)

• WebAssembly security model)

• Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast 🎉 (blog post))

• Walt | Alternative Syntax for WebAssembly)

• AssemblyScript)

Other References

• The event-stream bitcoin wallet hack)

What the Panelists are Excited About

• PWAs installable on Windows)

• Concurrent React)

• WebAssembly GC Integration)

• WebAssembly usecases)

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