The future of ES6

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JavaScript moves to annual editions with features released by maturity rather than version names, and ES2015+ already has broad browser support; async/await reaches stage 4 and is shown turning promise chains into near-synchronous code, cancellation tokens (CancelToken.source + token.throw) removes callback/cleanup boilerplate, and observables (stage 1) plus asynchronous iterators model web sockets and DOM events for push/pull streams. Examples use Babel transpilation, Node demos, Falcor cited, and underscore/lodash-style composition to filter spike events — it compiles and significantly simplifies real async code.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:40The future of JavaScript
3. 3:09Promises
4. 5:20Async Functions
5. 7:39Cancellation Tokens
6. 11:09Generator Functions
7. 15:16Asynchronous Functions
8. 19:27Push Streams
9. 24:58Composition
10. 29:09JavaScript fatigue

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