ePanorama.net » Javascript https://www.epanorama.net/blog All about electronics and circuit design Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:31:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 The future of Javascript https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/05/16/the-future-of-javascript/ https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/05/16/the-future-of-javascript/#comments Sat, 16 May 2015 06:17:19 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=31898 After almost 20 years, JavaScript is still growing by all measures: deployed apps, github usage, framework innovation, and of course standardized language evolution. The 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6, is all but done. ES7, the next edition, is under parallel construction in order to be finalized a year after ES6. Check out what →

]]> After almost 20 years, JavaScript is still growing by all measures: deployed apps, github usage, framework innovation, and of course standardized language evolution. The 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6, is all but done. ES7, the next edition, is under parallel construction in order to be finalized a year after ES6. Check out what to expect from them by watching ES6 and ES7 the future of Javascript video:

Classes, modules, arrow functions, destructuring, lexical binding, rest and default parameters, promises, generators, proxies and more are coming to browser-based JS Virtual Machines soon, and of course to Node.js via V8. Async functions, async generators, typed objects, value objects, SIMD intrinsics, and more are likely in ES7 or a follow-on release.

Most new features can be used now, via compilers such as Traceur, 6to5, and esnext.

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