Predictions about JS Future
(conclusion ?)
2020, the evergreen era
IE is dead (is it ?)
less transpiling is needed, but we got used to it
build tools / transpilers became smart & transparent
transpiling as a service and smart degradation for older devices or mobile
most of frameworks job is now done at build time, the runtime size penalty gets close to zero
Predictions about JS Future
(conclusion ?)
2025, the interop era
npm is bloated and changed its model, or has a competitor. JS is no longer the only option
WebAssembly arrived quietly and has great interop with JS. They are used together as a compil target
JS engines get optimized for subsets of the language, improving perf and compile time with the right tooling
JS has split in 2 parts: one as a compilation target (compressed, subsetted, prepacked, WASM-boosted), one as a language (probably close to TypeScript/ReasonML)