Web Development

TH14 Busy JavaScript Developer's Guide to ECMAScript 6

06/18/2015

1:30pm - 2:45pm

Level: Intermediate

Ted Neward

Ted Neward

Director, Developer Relations

Smartsheet.com

ECMAScript is better known by its original name JavaScript. It has been characterized as the "assembly language of the Web." This is largely due to its widespread dispersal through the innumerable Web browsers installed on end-users/consumers machines (and mobile devices) over the years. In fits and starts, various organizations, corporations and projects have sought to advance the language, but all have met some degree of failure in one sense or another. Finally, with the upcoming ECMA standard for ECMAScript 6 ("Harmony"), we think we have some progress. In this session, we're going to look at the proposed changes to ECMAScript/JavaScript, and have a look at what "JavaScript++" will look like, once it finally rolls out to the browsers.

You will learn:

  • All about the New syntax
  • All about the New semantics
  • All about the New idioms