ECMAscript 2015 - ES6 symbols/promises/generators/transpiling

Headliner: Randal Koutnik

ECMA has been working on the new standard called "Harmony" for a little while now (around 2011). The spec is standardized as ECMAScript 2015 (http://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/).

There are many exciting and great features that come with the spec. Let's cover some of these.

Secret Arts of the ES6 Doom Viking: Symbols & Async (Thursday)In this talk, we'll delve deep into the mystical metaprogramming arts of ES6 Symbols and conquer time itself by dual-wielding the new async features of Promises and Generators. Learn how to implement your own iterators, add gobs of new metainformation to your classes, implement FizzBuzz in entirely new ways, and find out exactly what "metainformation" is.

About Randall

Randall Koutnik is a JavaScript engineer at a nifty security company. He's a major open source contributor, maintaining Batarang, UI Layout and his own real time processing library: Gustav. Some say he’s the rightful king of Switzerland. Others claim that was a clerical mistake. You should read his blog at rkoutnik.com (http://rkoutnik.com/).

Venue

The Port Workspaces - 101 Broadway, Oakland, CA (https://www.google.com/maps?q=101+Broadway+,+Oakland,+CA)

Sponsors

HouseCanary (http://www.housecanary.com/about.html)will be sponsoring food!

We need a video sponsor for this event. We include sponsor logos in the recordings. This is a great opportunity to connect with the community -- contact the organizer (https://www.meetup.com/jquery/members/8631251/) for sponsorship.