Miscellaneous
The next iteration of the ECMAScript standard, expected to be ECMAScript 6, has been making solid progress since the completion of ES5 in 2009. Targeting standardization in 2013, ES6 is on track to bring significant new runtime and syntax features to one of the world's most broadly used programming languages. The addition of proxies, modules, private names, and weak maps provide runtime capabilities to enable new kinds of libraries. Syntax for block scoped bindings, destructuring, string interpolation and lambdas give simpler syntax to some common JavaScript coding patterns. This talk will quickly survey several of the most significant new areas of addition in ECMAScript 6 and the path forward for the standard.