Predicting the Future of Web Development
summary
Predicts TypeScript majority by 2025 with most new commercial JS projects using TypeScript by end of 2020; says WebAssembly creates a new class of heavy web apps (Figma ports C++ with 3x WebAssembly speed for Figma) rather than replacing HTML/CSS/JS; warns of more npm incidents—expects a headline security event by 2020 and a mass-infecting package by 2025 and advises running npm config set ignore-scripts true; notes Elm keeps 300,000 lines of Elm in production with near-zero runtime crashes.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00The challenge of tech choices
- 3:59The future of Typescript
- 10:39Web assembly and native apps
- 20:44The resilience of NPM
- 28:32Alternative languages
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