Hello Friend,
Welcome to Issue 003 of the eli4d Gazette. You can find the newsletter archive at http://tinyletter.com/eli4d/archive and the blog at eli4d.com.
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Eli (@eli4d)
The eli4d Gazette
Issue 003: 2016-04-13
Tech Pick
JavaScript! Do you love it? Do you hate it? Sometimes JavaScript and especially the latest JavaScript frameworks remind me of our current presidential race. Pushing this analogy to its limit – in the JavaScript framework world – which framework would be the equivalent of Trump? What about the Hillary one? Or the Bernie one?
Of course, I’m kidding because it’s all fun/sad melodrama. What’s not melodramatic is the fact the ECMAScript 6 aka ES6 is here. It’s not fully adopted by by everyone, but we’re getting there. Some neat articles about ES6:
- An excellent summary of ES 6 features (via the JavaScript Weekly newsletter): http://kamranahmed.info/blog/2016/04/04/es6-in-depth/
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Nicholas Zakas writes an interesting (short) post about the subtlety of ES6 module loading (I’m a big fan of Nicholas because he’s a highly meticulous and opinionated software guy; I’m looking forward to reading his ES 6 book): https://www.nczonline.net/blog/2016/04/es6-module-loading-more-complicated-than-you-think/
Media Pick
Season 1 of the disturbingly dark and technically accurate Mr. Robot series. It’s like a cyber-space/security version of Dexter.