Doug WadeUp next is Christina Zhu talking about ES13
Any history of js that includes neopets is a good history of js
Top-level await is the first up -- this allows us to avoid the async anonymous main function necessary to await promises that was required previously.
Up next is private class methods and fields, which I love so much, and use very extensively in #WebComponents
class Person {
#privateField
}
Array.at() is now preferred over square brackets for accessing array members.
Array methods!
- toSorted
- toReversed
- findLast
- findLastIndex
- toSpliced
Shebang comments are in ES14 -- I didn't realize we didn't have this?
WeakMaps now accept symbols as keys
"It's time to learn typescript my dudes and dudettes"
kinda disappointed typescript is the strongly-typed compile-to-js language that won, but strong types are better than weak types so 🤷♂️