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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