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A Feature Watch on ECMAScript 2018

Not a lot to see yet, but Axel has done a great job of maintaining similar posts in the past if you want to keep up to date with the latest ES specs.

DR. AXEL RAUSCHMAYER

WebAssembly Complete Enough to Deploy, Gets A Logo

The W3C WebAssembly Community Group says the design of WebAssembly is complete enough that browsers can ship it “on by default”. An official logo has also been chosen.

W3C

Stanford Trialling JavaScript for Introductory CS Courses

Due to industry shifts and student feedback, Stanford is experimenting with basing its introductory computer science courses around JavaScript instead of Java.

THE STANFORD DAILY

JavaScript Errors and Stack Traces in Depth

How the call stack works, Error objects, and how and why you can manipulate stack traces.

LUCAS FERNANDES DA COSTA

A Detailed Introduction To Webpack

Webpack is a powerful tool that bundles your app source code efficiently for use in the browser. There have been many intros but this is another great one.

JOSEPH ZIMMERMAN

Fable: An F# to JavaScript Compiler

Brings together the F# compiler and Babel to make JavaScript a true backend for F#, a strongly typed, ML-esque language I have a big soft spot for and which you can learn here.

V8 Behind the Scenes: The Tale of TurboFan

The technical behind-the-scenes tale of Turbofan, one of V8’s optimizing compilers.

BENEDIKT MEURER

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