If you write JS or TS, probably every tool you use daily is currently being rewritten in Rust.

This has advantages (have you heard that Rust is "blazing fast"?), but also potential downsides.

The evolution of JS from the dark days before async/await was fuelled by tooling written in JS. If our tools migrate to a language we don't know, will we lose the ability to control or customize them?

In this talk, I'll explain how in Oxc (the compiler underlying the next generation of the open source Vite bundler), we're trying to "square the circle" - providing rich customisation via plugins written in JS, but maintaining the exceptional performance of Rust - and take you into the nerdy details of memory layouts, allocators, garbage collection, and the tricks that make it possible to have our Rusty cake and eat it with a JS fork.

In the beginning, there was the web and the web was a simple place. Then came along JavaScript and all that changed.
In this talk, we’ll take a look at the humble beginnings of JS and how it exploded into the chimaera of frameworks and libraries that we have today, leading to the vast complexity of web development as a whole.

TC39 is the standards committee that designs the JavaScript language (sometimes called ECMAScript). The panel will feature a range of committee members and they will answer to questions about the past, present and future of JavaScript!

TC39 is the standards committee that designs the JavaScript language (sometimes called ECMAScript). The panel will feature a range of committee members and they will answer to questions about the past, present and future of JavaScript!