Updates from the 97th TC39 meeting

There were several items on the agenda, this post focuses on feature proposals and their progress from the 97th TC39 meeting [Jul 11 - Jul 13 of 2023].

Stage 3:

• Array Grouping: A proposal to make grouping of array items easier.

• Promise.withResolvers: Creates a Promise with the reject,resolveandpromise functions placed as methods
  on the promise object itself.

• Source Phase Imports: Proposal to enable importing modules at the source phase.

• Time Zone Canonicalization: Stacked on Temporal to improve handling of changes to the IANA Time Zone Database.

Stage 2:

• Deferred Import Evaluation:a way to defer evaluate of a module (previously known as "Lazy Module Initialization").

Stage 1:

• DataView get/set Uint8Clamped methods: getUint8Clamped and setUint8Clamped on DataView.prototype.

• Optional Chaining assignment: add support for optional chaining on the left of assignment operators: a?.b = c.

Comments

[Alin Pisica]

The link to the Deferred Import Evaluation ain't working.
Will leave it here until the post is updated

github.com/tc39/proposal-defer-imp...

The deferred evaluation is something I've been looking forward to for the past period. I see a lot of use cases in the micro-frontends area, especially combined with the Vite's Module Federation plugin <3