Any history of js that includes neopets is a good history of js

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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.

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Up next is private class methods and fields, which I love so much, and use very extensively in #WebComponents

class Person {
#privateField
}

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static class fields too!

class Point {
static x = 0;
}

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Array.at() is now preferred over square brackets for accessing array members.

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Array methods!
- toSorted
- toReversed
- findLast
- findLastIndex
- toSpliced

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Shebang comments are in ES14 -- I didn't realize we didn't have this?

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