Real JavaScript, not too much, stage three and above

KBall and Nick meet up with Jory Burson and Amal Hussein at Node+JS Interactive. Together we open up the black box of the JavaScript standards process, talk about how to get involved, and then dig into the use of ASTs to transform and analyze JavaScript.

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Featuring:

• Jory Burson – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Standards & Opening the Black Box

• TC39 on GitHub
• Myles Borins
• Daniel Ehrenberg
• Maggie Pint
• TC39 proposals
• The TC39 Process
• How to join ECMA
• Jory’s talk on Standardizing JavaScript

On the distribution of stakeholders

• Representing Web Developers in W3C

On testing the JavaScript spec with JavaScript

• Official ECMAScript Conformance Test Suite
• Contributing to the Conformance Test Suite

On the Boundaries of the Spec

• JS Party episode covering error messages
• On using JavaScript Proposals in Production

ASTs

• Amal’s talk on ASTs for Refactoring
• Esprima
• Babel parser
• Acorn
• Dojo upgrade tool (using ASTs)
• Awesome AST

Other

• Bocoup

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!