The future of Javascript

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JavaScript claims production performance parity with old Java VMs by combining ASM.js, typed arrays and upcoming typed objects, and it demonstrates real wins: a SIMD demo shows roughly 3–4× speedup on vector workloads, BananaBread/Unreal/Unity ports run at 60fps via Emscripten and WebGL, and async control flow lands as async/await. The standard moves to annual releases—ES6 finalizes mid‑2015 and ES7 targets 2016—and proposals must pass a staged GitHub workflow.

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1. 0:00JavaScript’s future
2. 3:02JavaScript origins & Java’s influence
3. 6:36JavaScript rise & Java’s decline
4. 8:24ES6 progress & typed arrays
5. 11:16JavaScript surpassing Java
6. 13:49TC39 standardization
7. 16:59Async functions & generators
8. 18:04SIMD & typed objects
9. 21:20SIMD demos & game engines
10. 23:28WebAssembly & game mashups
11. 26:25ASM.js & modern bytecode
12. 27:50Unity & Unreal on web
13. 28:51Conclusion: Bet on JS

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