Guillermo Rauch – PROGRAMMING THE JAVASCRIPT FUTURE

Javascript By Builder

JavaScript first enabled the enrichment of website interaction. It made its first appearance as tiny snippets of code that lived inside HTML attributes.

It went on to enable -unprecedentedly- a new generation of rich applications like Gmail that improved on Desktop counterparts , eg Outlook.

The web and mobile web are now decisively JavaScript-driven.

With Node.JS, JavaScript entered the server. It’s now the fastest-growing OSS project and community. With Electron, JavaScript entered the OS. Applications like Atom and Slack are entirely JavaScript-powered. With Progressive Web Apps, React Native and NativeScript, JavaScript’s entering mobile. Based on its track record, I certainly wouldn’t bet against it.

JavaScript is the language that unifies technologies. This talk will explore how its future might look a lot like its beginnings: short snippets of code. Or how the goal of JavaScript is to write very little JavaScript.

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