041: The Third Age of JavaScript, with Shawn @Swyx Wang

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Shawn Wang - known as "swyx" online - is a financial investor turned software engineer and journalist. With a passion for history and a knack for "trend spotting", Shawn uses a keen analytical sense, honed through years of financial due diligence, in order to organize the world of web development into a series of epochs, each with its own theme. He's recently codified these observations in a blog post titled, The Third Age of JavaScript. Today, we're thrilled to have Shawn as a guest on our podcast to discuss the past, present, and future state of JavaScript as well as the world of developer ergonomics and the magical possibilities of effortless platform management.

Notes & Links

• Shawn Wang: The Third Age of JavaScript
• Shawn Wang: The Self Provisioning Runtime
• Shawn Wang: Temporal.io
• John Resig: jQuery
• Douglas Crockford: JSON
• analytics.usa.gov
• JavaScript (ES) Modules
• Evan Wallace: esbuild
• SWC
• Parcel
• Benedict Evans: Platforms, bundling and kill zones
• Base Rate Fallacy
• Rogers Curve of Adoption: Diffusion of Innovations
• Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
• Svelte
• Svelte Society
• Webpack
• Pulumi
• AWS Cloud Development Kit
• Serverless.com
• Begin.com
• Amazon DynamoDB
• Chris Richardson: Microservices.io
• The Burning Monk: Choreography vs Orchestration in the land of serverless

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