A Few New Things Coming To JavaScript (ES6)

ECMAScript 6 contains a few new features. Addy Osmani gives a nice overview of things that are about to come:

• Modules (which can replace the revealing module pattern we’re familiar with) and Module Loader
• Classes (which merely is some syntactic sugar)
• Object.observe()
• Default Parameter Values (again syntactic sugar as we already know how to work around this)
• Block Scoping
• Maps and sets
• Proxies (think PHP’s magic functions __get() and __set())
• WeakMaps
• Several API improvements such as Object.is and Array.from

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