You are tearing me apart, Jira!

ugh I wish there was an easier way to do this

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to Jon Kuperman & Littledan on becoming convenors for the newly-chartered source maps task group TC39 today 🎉 TG4 will harden the sourcemaps specification, evolving it to be more reliable and expressive for a better JS debugging experience 👍

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to Chris de Almeida & Jordan Harband on becoming convenors for the Security task group TC39 today 🎉 TG3's mission is to ensure the JS security model is effective for the constantly evolving threat landscape of today and tomorrow 👍

ECMAScript excitement 😉 This week TC39 advanced these proposals 🎉 3️⃣ Array Grouping 3️⃣ Promise.withResolvers 3️⃣ Source Phase Imports 3️⃣ Time Zone Canonicalization 2️⃣ Deferred Import Evaluation 1️⃣ DataView get/set Uint8Clamped methods 1️⃣ Optional Chaining assignment

My yearly reminder to all those men who spend every International Women’s Day whining “When’s International Men’s Day then?” It’s today and it brings good news for men’s health #InternationalMensDay2023

ECMAScript excitement 😉 This week TC39 advanced these JS proposals 🎉 4️⃣ Array Grouping 4️⃣ Promise.withResolvers() 1️⃣ Module sync assert ...and withdrew these proposals 🗑️ Operator Overloading 🗑️ Custom Numeric Suffices

Ecma recognition 😉 Congrats to the three Ecma Recognition awards winners for their contributions to TC39 and Ecma International 🎉 🔸 Mark Miller Mark S. Miller 🔸 Myles Borins sMyle (🦋 @myles.dev) 🔸 Shane Carr Shane Carr

The 126th General Assembly held in Cupertino on 5 December 2023 approved four new Ecma recognition awards to honour Taku Hoshizawa, Myles Borins, Shane F. Carr and Mark Miller for their contributions and services to Ecma. More information is available at ecma-international.org/ecma-fellow-aw…

The 100th TC39 meeting begins in San Diego tomorrow and is kindly hosted by ServiceNow 🎉 If you wish to join us in person, please sign up for the San Diego JavaScript community event. It begins at 5pm on Thursday 8th Feb at the ServiceNow office. meetup.com/sandiegojs/eve…

You are warmly invited to join us in San Diego for the San Diego JavaScript x TC39 Community Event in celebration of the 100th meeting 🎉 We shall have talks, activities, hot appetisers, drinks, and lots of JavaScript 👍 It begins at 5pm on Thursday 8th Feb at the ServiceNow office.

ECMAScript excitement 😉 This week TC39 advanced these proposals 🎉 4️⃣ ArrayBuffer transfer 3️⃣ Base64 conversion 2️⃣.7️⃣ ShadowRealm 2️⃣ Joint Iteration 2️⃣ Math.sum 2️⃣ Promise.try 1️⃣ Discard bindings 1️⃣ ESM Phase Imports 1️⃣ Function Decorators 1️⃣ Iterator Unique/Chunking

We also chartered a new Task Group 🎉 TG5 will research the process and methods of Programming Language standardisation. It will be convened by Mikhail Barash at Universitetet i Bergen 👍

We celebrated three Ecma International Recognition awards 🎉 These were approved by acclamation at the 126th Ecma General Assembly and were presented this week by the Ecma Secretary General Samina Husain. x.com/robpalmer2/sta…

And finally, thanks to ServiceNow and Rodrigo Fernandez in particular for hosting us in San Diego 👍 It has been an amazing 100th TC39 meeting 🎉

What is Dead May Never Die: a jQuery story

ugh I wish there was an easier way to do this

is JavaScript (ECMAScript) a "web standard"?

ECMAScript gratitude 😉 Thank you to Sony Interactive Entertainment for hosting TC39 in Tokyo this week. Especially to lead organiser Riki and TC39 delegate Ross Kirsling 🙏 The productive meeting had artwork, TC39-branded swag, and many thoughtful touches. I hope we return 👍