JavaScript’s birthday; TC39 FAQ; ESLint v8.55.0; Bun v1.0.15; Socket CLI v0.9.0; Turborepo 1.11

“Netscape Communications Corporation and Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced JavaScript, an open, cross-platform object scripting language for the creation and customization of applications on enterprise networks and the Internet. The JavaScript language complements Java, Sun’s industry-leading object-oriented, cross-platform programming language. The initial version of JavaScript is available now as part of the beta version of Netscape Navigator 2.0, which is currently available for downloading from Netscape’s web site.”

For more information on JavaScript’s history, see the paper “JavaScript: the first 20 years” by Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich.

• Transpiler cache makes CLIs like tsc up to 2× faster
• expect.extend() and more matchers
• Syntax-highlighting for error messages
• Better Error.stack traces
• Support for crypto.sign and crypto.verify

• View a package's security scores
• View a package's security issues
• Use dist tags to refer to package versions

[Quoting the blog post:]

Turborepo 1.11 completes our migration to Rust and ships several developer experience improvements:

• Our new Rust-based foundation: We've finished the port from Go to lay the groundwork for better performance, improved stability, and new features.
• Group logs for improved readability: You can now specify --log-order=grouped to organize your logs into distinct sections separated by tasks.
• Updated examples: Start with an example for Next.js, Svelte, Remix, Nuxt, and more.

• “[…] New tree shaking implementation specifically addressing compatibility issues with webpack architecture and optimizing for reduced output size.”
• “Allow Rspack to control export mangling.”

“Prettier, the most popular JavaScript code formatter, recently released a novel way to format nested ternaries under an experimental flag. This has come after years of disagreement over the best and most readable way to format a nested ternary.”

“I have a better idea of how to make nested ternaries clearer: stop nesting them.”

“Rule of least power: [...] Choose the least powerful language suitable for a given purpose. On the web this means preferring HTML over CSS, and then CSS over JavaScript.”

“You might be thinking ‘All the things I use JS for, I need JS for’. That might be true, but it’s good to know that both browser makers and specification writers have been porting a lot of functionality over to CSS and HTML that up to a few years ago needed JS. And that’s what this article is about.”