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Versioning has many downsides. Let’s assume we create a new version of JavaScript that is not backward compatible and fixes all of its flaws. As a result, we’d encounter the follow…

I have used many languages in my nearly 40 years as a programmer (Scheme, C++, Java, Python, Haskell, OCaml, Rust, etc.) and still enjoy JavaScript: It’s decent as a language and t…

It depends on what you mean by syntactic sugar. I follow this definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar You can indeed translate an async function to an equivalent …

Thanks for posting this! (I’m the book’s author.) – The whole book is free to read online. – This chapter gives an overview of what’s new in each ECMAScript version: https://explor…

I wrote my JavaScript book for people who already know how to program – maybe it works for you. Free to read online: https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/

FWIW – with Mathias’ help, I turned this tweet thread into a blog post: https://2ality.com/2022/05/rfc-9239.html

Thanks for the kind words! W.r.t. the “Dr.”: It’s interesting how much reactions differ. In Germany, people tend to think you are smart if you have a title. In the States, people t…

I have written four chapters about asynchronous JavaScript: – Foundations: https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/ch_async-js.html – Promises for async programming: https://exploring…

For what it’s worth: That’s not what motivated this blog post. It was that I often encounter people who see the three dots being used in parameter definitions or destructuring and …

The Temporal cookbook has more information on time arithmetic: https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/cookbook.html#arithme...

Thanks! I’m glad to hear that.

[I’m the author of “Deep JavaScript”.] Don’t forget that this book is for people who already know JavaScript well. It doesn’t try to explain the basics. This book does, though: htt…

From what I’ve read, TC39 acknowledges that this is important and is working on fixing JavaScript’s deficiencies in this area: – BigInts (arbitrary precision integers) were a recen…

In JavaScript, classes are mostly just a slightly weird way of setting up prototype chains. Diagrams help me understand how this works. At the following link, you can see the sourc…

You can check out my book (it’s free to read online): https://exploringjs.com/tackling-ts/

I’ve asked on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rauschma/status/1401538009212784643

IIRC, adding those operations was merely postponed, not rejected. These are work-arounds: https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/ch_maps.html#missing-ma...

AssemblyScript [1] is an example of a subset of JavaScript being compiled to fast WebAssembly. But it is very static code. If you want to run dynamic JavaScript fast, you need the …

Here is a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming#La... JavaScript itself was inspired by Self in this case.

These two books are based on the 2ality blog and also free to read online: – JavaScript for impatient programmers (covers most of ES1–ES2020, incl. many advanced topics): https://e…

Everything you’ve mentioned plays a role. It has also worked well marketing-wise: In Germany, people take you more seriously; in the US it doesn’t matter, but a title is still more…

Ping me at dr_axel AT icloud.com and I’ll notify you. Two universities in Switzerland are using my book to teach JavaScript and seem happy with it, so far.

(Just in case the title is putting you off: You are describing the goals of this book.)

I agree! I’m in the process of editing the relevant chapter.

The title is tongue-in-cheek. The book itself is not superficial.