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Discussion on: What's new and interesting in JavaScript?

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Kirill Shestakov

I find TypeScript to be exciting right now. It seems that the community became a lot more open to it and even excited about it. It improves the way we interact with 3rd party libraries, with our own code, and makes things better and cleaner. I believe that the next steps for JavaScript / TypeScript will be, like for most other modern languages, to adapt more standards in writing clean code. We may see more things like dependency inversion and separation of concerns.

I find framework wars to be mostly distracting (e.g. recent thing between React and Svelte). They implement and reimplement the wheel, they try to solve the same problem, each time slightly differently, but they don't solve new problems, and, in the end, don't make developers that much more efficient. My hope is that people will realize this and start separating their business logic away from the frameworks rather than putting it in the components, and use frameworks as plug-in if they choose so.