Source: thenewstack.io
ECMAScript 2021: What’s Next for JavaScript?Category: Database, Data
The next annual update to ECMAScript — the formal specification of the JavaScript language — will be coming out this July, adding all the suggested features that have reached stage 4. The New Stack asked two of the co-chairs of the TC39 committee that standardizes ECMAScript, Rob Palmer (head of Bloomberg’s JavaScript Infrastructure and Tooling team) and Brian Terlson (principal architect on the Azure SDK for TypeScript and JavaScript, and former editor of the spec) to walk us through the impact of the new features.
One of the big advantages of JavaScript is that developers don’t usually need to do manual memory management, so it doesn’t matter that garbage collection can differ between individual browsers and other JavaScript engines.
What we love in JavaScript is that we don’t need to do the manual memory tracking; we have the garbage collector to do it for us,” Palmer said.
All the justification that we need,” he said, “is being able to share memory more effectively between WebAssembly and JavaScript.”
One of the big advantages of JavaScript is that developers don’t usually need to do manual memory management, so it doesn’t matter that garbage collection can differ between individual browsers and other JavaScript engines.
What we love in JavaScript is that we don’t need to do the manual memory tracking; we have the garbage collector to do it for us,” Palmer said.
All the justification that we need,” he said, “is being able to share memory more effectively between WebAssembly and JavaScript.”
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