Jumping off the Edge into Chromium

Nick, KBall, and Chris respond to follow up on the State of JavaScript survey, discuss Chromium, Edge, and the future of the web, and reminisce about the past year in the final JS Party of 2018!

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Featuring:

• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

State of JavaScript survey follow up

• Sacha Grief responds to our previous discussion on the State of JS survey
• JS Party: 52 - Original discussion on the survey
• Changelog: 252 - GitHub’s Open Source Survey

Jumping off the Edge into Chromium

• It’s official. The future of Microsoft Edge is Chromium
• They’re also dropping ChakraCore in favor of V8.

JavaScript in 2018 and Beyond

• TypeScript is 🔥🔥🔥
• Vue 3.0 and TypeScript
• JS Party is back!
• Dojo 2 released!
• npm: This year in JavaScript
• Project Gutenberg from WordPress
• The rise of VSCode
• Netflix: Our learnings from adopting GraphQL
• Deno - JavaScript and TypeScript outside the browser

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