I gave a talk at this years Richmond JavaScript Conference. I always wondered what would JavaScript look like then if many of the TC39 proposals were accepted. Given many take years, if I made the assumption by 2037, the few I wanted were approved, what would JavaScript look like then?
In this talk, I covered 8 of them. While I researched many, the Iterators were out of scope, many of the WASM were on hold or for different use cases than the web dev / back-end work I do, so I picked the ones I thought were overall a great group to have.
While giving the talk, I reached Math.clamp. The creator of the proposal, Oliver Medhurst, was literately 5 feet in front of me. He had flown 3,700 miles / 5,900 kilometers to talk about one of his awesome projects, Porfor (purple in Welsh) at the same conference. I ensured the audience clap for him, lol! In my excitement talking about various TC39 proposals, I didn’t notice the TC39 hat he was wearing.
I’ll update this post with video when I have it.
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