Keep Betting on JavaScript

About this presentation

Brendan Eich's famous quip, "Always bet on JavaScript", revels in JS's history of naysayers predicting that we'd eventually reach a point where JS couldn't grow to meet the demands of modern development; it turns out those have always been bad bets. It's safe to say JS is no longer trying to prove itself. It has arrived. Even if it was once a "dumb kid brother" to something like Java, it's now fully a first class citizen in the programming language ecosystem. JS is certainly not the only dominant language or the "best tool" for every situation. But increasingly, most tech stacks have it as a central part of their strategy. In this talk, we're going to look forward at what's over the horizon for JavaScript, the world's most ubiquitous and popular (by usage if not emotion!) language. We'll look at Web Assembly, upcoming proposals that will be game changers for the web platform, and more. A bet is always a guess, but let's explore why bets on JS will only get sweeter.