How many times a month TC39 committee meets offline for discussion.
TC39 meets every 2 months in a location somewhere in the world. For example, this meeting was in NYC (low barrier for me since I live in NYC), but the next one will be in Berlin immediately following JSConf EU.
It seems there are 63 participants in TC39. How many of them visited the meeting?
There are actually a significantly larger number than 63 that you can see – those 63 have just made their membership in the GitHub organization public (GitHub defaults to private, and many developers in general don't know that there's even a toggle for this). There about 3x that many members of the org.
My rough estimate is that there were 50-75 people in the meeting. The meeting spans three days and some people were only able to attend for a day or two, so it's hard for me to assert exactly how many people were there without looking at the attendance sheet.
Why 39? Is it some magic number like 42 🤔?
So the "TC" part is important – it stands for Technical Committee, which is a part of how ECMA International (the body which TC39 is under) is structured. The answer to your question is incredibly simple, as far as I know – TC39 was the 39th TC/TG 😁
You can find a list of all (current?) TCs on the ECMA International website. You might notice a few others that cover areas you recognize, like TC49 and TC52.
Thanks, Tierney, for sharing. I'm just curious:
Thanks for the kind words Eugene! 🙏
To answer your questions:
TC39 meets every 2 months in a location somewhere in the world. For example, this meeting was in NYC (low barrier for me since I live in NYC), but the next one will be in Berlin immediately following JSConf EU.
There are actually a significantly larger number than 63 that you can see – those 63 have just made their membership in the GitHub organization public (GitHub defaults to private, and many developers in general don't know that there's even a toggle for this). There about 3x that many members of the org.
My rough estimate is that there were 50-75 people in the meeting. The meeting spans three days and some people were only able to attend for a day or two, so it's hard for me to assert exactly how many people were there without looking at the attendance sheet.
So the "TC" part is important – it stands for Technical Committee, which is a part of how ECMA International (the body which TC39 is under) is structured. The answer to your question is incredibly simple, as far as I know – TC39 was the 39th TC/TG 😁
You can find a list of all (current?) TCs on the ECMA International website. You might notice a few others that cover areas you recognize, like TC49 and TC52.
Oh nice, this is something new to me. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the detailed reply!