The Next Exciting JavaScript Feature: Records & Tuples
Immutability and deep equality. Two keywords that were initially relegated to strict functional programming environments, but have been popularized across the JavaScript community thanks to libraries like Immutable.js, Immer and React.
"Records & Tuples" is a new ECMAScript proposal that brings two new immutable primitives to the language: what do they look like, what capabilities do they bring, and when will you finally be able to use them?
Nicolò is an Open Source Developer, a maintainer of Babel — the JavaScript compiler — and a contributor to different JavaScript tools. They are a TC39 delegate, and they helped develop different TC39 proposals over the years. When offline, he is a math student in Turin, Italy.
