JavaScript Due for New Time, Date and Set Features Next Year
Briefly

"The language features that will be included in the next annual update to JavaScript will be decided early in the new year... One much-requested project has been eagerly awaited and appears to be in the home straight."
"Setting the Scene for JavaScript Efficiency...having the same names in different branches of a regexp simplifies writing expressions which need to match something expressed in various ways but will match only once, like the year 2025 or just 25 in a date."
"New methods for working with JavaScript's Set class have been under discussion for years... leaving developers to write their own set methods or use a polyfill like Core.js."
"TC39 co-chair Rob Palmer described this as another classic case where people have been writing their own utility functions to process sets since ES 2015, indicating how this proposal took a long time to advance."
Read at thenewstack.io
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