Final Thoughts

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A panel answers concrete tradeoffs: JavaScript evolution accepts messy legacy and deprecation rather than wholesale removal, illustrated by navigator.enableTaint which removal once broke “half the web”; Rust targets systems safety but may compile to JS so expect a Rust to JavaScript compiler sometime; type efforts split between Typescript and flow with engines reserving the colon syntax; standards move toward a rapid release footing (ES7) instead of giant, slow projects.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:32Brandons Tweet
3. 1:42Good and Bad Parts
4. 3:40Removing Things Being Difficult
5. 5:38Rust vs JavaScript
6. 6:33Types in JavaScript
7. 8:04Biggest lessons from TC39

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