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I/O chat with Sathya Gunasekaran and Mathias Bynens {: .page-title }

In this episode we chat to Sathya Gunasekaran and Mathias Bynens, who work on the V8 JavaScript team. We cover stuff like:

Pronouncing names.
Modules vs classic scripts.
let & const scoping.
Class fields, as in private properties.
Dynamic imports.
Modules in workers.
How V8 dealt with Meltdown and Spectre.
Pipeline vs bind.

Also check out their I/O talk, Building the future of the web with modern JavaScript

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