title: ECMAScript 2015 author: name: Jonathan Reyes twitter: jreyes33 url: https://jreyes.org/es2015 output: index.html style: styles/slides.css

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ECMAScript 2015

The future of JavaScript, now

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The standard

ECMA-262
6th Edition / Draft March 17, 2015
Ecma/TC39/2015/0XX
ECMAScript 2015

• Aligned with ISO/IEC 16262
• Current version is 5.1 (June 2011)
• Feature frozen in 2014
• To be published on June 18, 2015

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It's just waiting to be approved

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Other names and recent history

• ES Harmony (2008)
• ES.next (2011)
• ES6 (2011)
• ES 2015 (2015)

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Current support (browsers)

Source: ECMAScript 6 compatibility table

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Current support (servers)

Source: ECMAScript 6 compatibility table

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Current support (compilers)

Source: ECMAScript 6 compatibility table

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How to use it now

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Additional resources

• ES6 Learning (list of resources)
• Axel Rauschmayer's articles
• Understanding ECMAScript 6 by Nicholas Zakas
• Learn Harmony (interactive lessons)

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Demo time

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<iframe src="demo.html"></iframe>

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Other features not in the demo

• Map, WeakMap, WeakSet
• Proxies and Reflect
• Modules
• Iterators
• API additions in Math, Number, String, Object

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Thanks

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