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LGTM! Smells like Redux (in a good way). But then ultimately at the root you probably want the event to update your “model”, and then that leads to an update of the “view”. This is…

I think there is room for improvement in how we explain this. The problems aren’t really visible in this small sample and comes up more for bigger things. PRs welcome.

> what do you do to retain talent? Wouldn't senior employees look elsewhere for better pay? Giving everyone a true sense of co-ownership is great for retention. Plus interesting, m…

It would be great to hear feedback from everyone on the Temporal survey: https://forms.gle/iL9iZg7Y9LvH41Nv8

pizlonator, Is ShadowChicken cheap enough to turn on all the time and make Error.stack work similarly to without PTC?

We wrote about this in detail in http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/04/es6-es7-and-beyond.htm... under the heading "Proper Tail Calls". tl;dr we implemented it, it works, but we ar…

From the post: "The V8 team is already working to bring upcoming features such as async / await keywords, Object.prototype.values() / Object.prototype.entries(), String.prototype.p…

Sorry for the inaccurate shorthand; maybe that should read that SpiderMonkey supports it. Eric Faust of SpiderMonkey is a co-champion of the proposal, and spoke against implicit PT…

And you can use that sort of library in ES6 because generators were standardized.

Not sure what you mean by virtual DOM. From the WebAssembly FAQ: "Is WebAssembly trying to replace JavaScript? No! WebAssembly is designed to be a complement to, not replacement of…

ES2016 is proposed to be based on Ecmarkup, a more modern system which will let us collaborate on Github more easily, rather than a canonical MS Word document on the editor's compu…

What approval means here is that it was ratified by the ECMA General Assembly. The move by TC-39 to send ECMAScript 2015 to the GA was voted on at the last TC-39 meeting around a m…

The plan is to keep releasing them mid-year.

Hey, I was just going to mention how easy it was for me to move... to right next to your cube! (I'm in V8.)

Strong mode prohibits most (all?) implicit conversions https://developers.google.com/v8/experiments . Brendan's talked about adding a macro system. I'm not sure if a macro system c…

For background on the user-defined operators and literals idea for ES7, see this: http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/value-objects (it took me a little while to find; it hasn't …

6% is nothing compared to the raises or stocks or other random bonuses that come with working for a big tech company for a while and doing well. It seems really short-sighted to co…

When I got out of school 4 years ago, people were already making the same arguments. While Google isn't perfect, I can't imagine a place I'd rather work, where I can really dig int…

I agree, that's a great book to start with. When I started out programming the Linux kernel, I thought I had to understand everything and I hated the book for not going into detail…