Default arguments in ES6, put simply: I'm a huge fan. (more…)

Everyone in the JavaScript community loves new APIs, syntax updates, and features — they provide better, smarter, more efficient ways to accomplish important tasks.  ES6 brings forth a massive wave of new goodies and the browser vendors have worked h...

In the pre-ES6 era, there was only one way of declaring variables in JavaScript — being the usage of var. var has always had this special aura of misconception — this probably because of how the behaviour of variables declared with var distinguishes from... (more…)

Last night I expressed some frustration about the state and future of concurrency in JavaScript. I ended up having a little bit of back and forth with David Herman and he pointed out that ES6 Generators can express Go and core.async's flavor of CSP. Now I... (more…)

ES2015 (also known as ES6), the version of the JavaScript specification ratified in 2015, is a huge improvement to the language’s expressive power thanks to features like classes, for-of, destructuring, spread, tail calls, and much more. But powerful lang... (more…)