171 JSJ Babel with Sebastian McKenzie

02:28 - Sebastian McKenzie Introduction

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog

02:53 - Babel (Pronunciation Clarification)
05:56 - History

• Learn ES2015 - Babel

09:14 - The State of Babel
09:59 - Babel and the TC39 Process
11:54 - Features That Can’t Be Transpiled

• Weak Maps and Proxies    

13:45 - Readability and Performance Output

• Traceur

18:12 - Plugin Architecture
19:58 - ES6/2015 Feature Implementation

• Blockscoping
• Labels
• Exceptions
• Destructuring

25:49 - The Birth of Babel
26:45 - Babel vs Traceur
28:08 - Future Babel Features

• Code Optimization
• Minification
• Linting

30:15 - The Status of ES2015 and ES2016
31:01 - Browser Support
35:03 - Marketing
35:59 - TypeScript
37:24 - Babel Development and Labor
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