Forrest explains his new position at npm Inc.

Discussion of Forrest’s JSConf 2014 talk

Rise of community standards, Douglas Crockford’s the Good Parts, John Resig jQuery, Promises A+ standard

Standards committees, an inside look

ES4, ES5, Harmony, ES7 (champion for each feature)

test262 - conformance test suite

Our community has the power to figure out what features in ES6 are useful. Sort out the parts that are genuinely useful. Figure out the good parts now.

Module proposal benefited from critical discussions from the community

Tools for using ES6 features now

Development community needs to get on top of things and teach how we use the features with emphasis on the compelling parts.

Forrest no longer recommends Crockford’s Good Parts to new developers because half is scar tissue and dogma, instead Dave Herman’s Effective JavaScript which gives them a mental toolkit to determine their own style

Don’t concentrate on what’s cool, but concentrate on what’s stable and effective. As an educator be conservative.

Warnings from Java, Perl history

Typescript and Coffeescript bring things to the table but they could fragment the community

ES timeline

Features need enough examination to ensure they are finished

Keeping some things in user land to see what community comes up with. Developers as leaders in this transition.

npm growth, npm Inc dev ops, addressing pain points in npm CLI

All software languages have something that is terrible. Community is something that makes Node.js special.

Node.js in the enterprise is happening very rapidly. A very interesting time to be in the middle of this evolution.