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Slides for my talk "Easing into ECMAScript 6 and Beyond" at EmpireJS 2014
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Slides for my talk "Easing into ECMAScript 6 and Beyond" at EmpireJS 2014
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/benjamn/empirejs-talk
- Owner: benjamn
- Created: 2014-05-05T23:02:53.000Z (about 12 years ago)
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- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: http://benjamn.github.io/empirejs-talk
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Easing into ECMAScript 6 and Beyond
===
[Ben Newman](https://github.com/benjamn) ([Facebook](https://code.facebook.com/projects))
[EmpireJS 2014](http://2014.empirejs.org/)
[4:50pm Tuesday, May 6th](http://2014.empirejs.org/#/schedule)
Abstract
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Recent progress toward the next version of the ECMAScript specification is
certainly exciting, but some of us have a hard time waiting for the future
to get here. At Facebook we have already implemented a few of the most
promising ECMAScript 6 features in terms of browser-safe
JavaScript-of-today, and we are thrilled to be releasing that growing
toolchain as an open source project for the benefit of (and so that we
might benefit from) the broader JS community. Now, it’s one thing to add
support for new language features to your build process, but quite another
challenge to change old habits and popularize best practices at the scale
of the Facebook codebase. This talk explains not only how we’ve made the
best parts of ECMAScript 6 (classes, arrow functions, rest parameters,
generators, and more) production-ready at Facebook, but also how we
communicated the news to thousands of developers and accelerated the
conversion of tens of thousands of files from the old idioms to the new.
Bio
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A common thread that runs through my history of employment at Meebo,
Apture, Mozilla, Quora, and Facebook is a passion for exploring the limits
of dynamic programming languages. Many of my most recent projects at
Facebook, including [React](http://facebook.github.io/react/) and
[Regenerator](http://facebook.github.io/regenerator/), have involved
large-scale automatic code transformation that would be difficult or
impossible without the tool chain I've developed over the last two
years. As one of Facebook's delegates to the TC39 standards body tasked
with specifying the next version of JavaScript (ECMAScript 6), I am
especially excited about the future of the language and how we might bring
about that future as quickly as possible.