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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
 --Alan Kay

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brief history lesson (of American spaceflight) and incomplete! ^ credit: David Hasan

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Mercury (Atlas) credit: David Hasan

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Gemini (Titan) credit: David Hasan

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Apollo (Saturn) credit: David Hasan

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lots of baby steps credit: David Hasan

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Brendan Eich

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Keep Betting On JavaScript Kyle Simpson getify

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another brief history (of my journey into JavaScript)

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cheating: Flash

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$("#menu")

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flXHR

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LABjs

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There, I fixed it for you. "You Don't Know JS" books

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lots of baby steps

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totally not a history lesson (of JavaScript the language)

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ES-early

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ES1/ES2

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ES3

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ES4 (aka ActionScript3)

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E4X (totally not ES4)

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ES5

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ES6 (aka ES2015)

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ES2016 (aka ES7)

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ES2017 (aka ES8)

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ES2018 (aka ES9)

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ES2019 (aka ES10)

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...blah, blah...

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best progress is incremental

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place your bets?

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PWA

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PWA

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...a good bet open collaboration

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language machine

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incremental open always good?

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language

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code is
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lingua franca

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multi-paradigm

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declarative

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compat

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not... - slow - sloppy - buggy - inconsistent

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coming soon to a JavaScript near you ...probably...maybe

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class fields

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private fields

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private methods

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optional chaining

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readable numbers

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BigInt

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from 10-days to now...

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machine

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assembly

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increased demands

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Proxy

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TypedArray/DataView

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shared memory!?!

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shared memory!?!

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shared memory!?!

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Atomics

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sourcemaps

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sourcemaps Problems: - stack traces - watch expressions

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TypeScript

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macros

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Tom Dale tomdale.net/2017/09/compilers- are-the-new-frameworks/

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experimentation in the wild? yes! eh, not so much :(

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asm.js

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WebAssembly

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language machine a tale of... ...two JavaScripts

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language machine so far... ...decent bets

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language machine humans where's your bet?