Topics include:
1:46 – Exploring the React paradigm
11:45 – How have your opinions on UI dev changed since starting Ember?
16:00 – How React's render functions and Ember's templates both solve the same problem: how to restrict the rendering code that users write
34:03 – JavaScript's multiparadigm approach: OOP + functional
40:13 - Hooks and the importance of lifecycle entanglement
46:15 – Do Hooks succeed in bringing the ideas of declarative rendering to our JavaScript code?
53:58 – The ES module spec, ES imports, and ES modules vs. CJS modules
1:04:55 – Are TypeScript users at risk of the same kinds of syntax collisions that CoffeeScript users once were?
1:10:10 – TypeScript now doesn't ship unstable features. (e.g. Optional chaining is stage 3)
1:15:35 – Yehuda's take on stage 0 through stage 4 ECMAScript proposals
1:23:39 – What's missing from UI development? And the difference between paradigms and abstractions.
1:31:00 – Ember's original sin was push-based reactivity. Pull-based is how programs work.
1:40:30 – Ember needs a new lifecycle entanglement primitive, that borrows concepts from both Hooks and Ember Concurrency tasks
1:57:07 – How do you feel about UI development in 2019?
Links:
No Silver Bullet, by Fred Books
React Hook Pitfalls, by Kent C. Dodds