From Latin to async/await: archaeological digs in JavaScript

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A historical and conceptual tour of JavaScript tracing ideas from early language, writing and formal logic through lambda calculus to modern JS. Covers influences from Self (prototypes), Scheme (functional features) and C (syntax), then explains ES6 changes, Proxy and Reflect, the role of classes vs. prototypes, Promises’ resemblance to monads and the progression to async/await.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 11:23Formal systems in JS
3. 29:43ES6 and metaprogramming
4. 37:31Promises to async/await
5. 40:23Summary and Q&A

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