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Kyle Simpson
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February 17, 2014
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where’s my straw? kyle simpson http://getify.me @getify
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drive-thrus
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where’s my straw?
take a step back...
lessons
what I see
humility
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temporary
fortune
no man is I am an island?
maybe... what’s best for me is best only for me...
observe where the world’s constraints on me are
wt.. i don.. even.. how?
wt.. i don.. even.. how?
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local maximum
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@aral http://vimeo.com/77257232
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hurry up and drive away
point?
standards
“less” standards, better tools
vs.
; vs.
what if your team didn’t have to agree?
github.com/getify/esre configurable 2-way code formatting
not just styles, though...
TC39 :: ECMA-262
what if you could customize JS to your own liking?
sweetjs.org JS macros
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{ block scoping }
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es6 ftw
be careful
ftw ... fml
never fear! github.com/getify/let-er --es6 ES3!
http://traceur-compiler.googlecode.com/git/demo/repl.html
how can I parse non-standard (or partial!) JavaScript? github.com/getify/literalizer
wait, what exactly am I suggesting?
democracy? anarchy? oligarchy?!? YES heresy!
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JavaScript
optional ternary-else
optional ternary-else
soft binding
soft binding
FoilScript: github.com/getify/foilscript
? team collaboration
inversible transforms
stay tuned on that...
also see: https://speakerdeck.com/ariya/the-future-of-javascript-language-tooling also see: http://gregfranko.com/building-javascript-tools-talk/
• esprima/acorn (parser) • escodegen (code generator) • escope/eslevels (scope
analyzer) • istanbul (code coverage) • estraverse (analyze AST) • eslint (pluggable code linting rules) • plato/jscomplexity.org (complexity)
• auto-correct misspellings • safely re-arrange scope • consolidate declarations
• automatically reduce complexity • refactor boolean traps • optimize performance • ...
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kyle simpson http://getify.me @getify thanks!!!