On: Building Nuclide, a unified developer experience

[applecore]

ES7 expertise? I thought ES6 was just finalized a few days ago.

[juanlyones → applecore]

ES7 was developed concurrently with ES6. ES6 is also officially known as ES2015 now with ES7 being referred to as ES2016. Apparently the goal is to ship functionality to the language on an annual basis.

[frik → juanlyones]

Where do one keep up to date with the ES news? W3C mailing lists?

[ascorbic → frik]

JavaScript Weekly is pretty good for that. http://javascriptweekly.com/

[bolinfest → applecore]

Why gate your progress on standards committees?

[supster → bolinfest]

Not sure, but I think it's unique to JS b/c it's built into web browsers. Therefore, all major browsers vendors need to ok major changes to the language so that there isn't a severe fragmentation in version support. I think this is achieved via the standards committee.