Podcasts by The Babel Podcast

The Babel Podcast

You probably use Babel. Do you ever wonder who made or works on the software you use, especially in open source? Or maybe it's in your dependencies and you don't even know.

Henry Zhu chats with other members of the team, TC39, and the JS community about the future of JavaScript, open source, and how it's all maintained. Join us in babbling about Babel!

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The Babel Podcast
Core Team Chats: Nicolò Ribaudo from 2020-11-23T17:48:45

Nicolò Ribaudo talks about his life as a math student, learning jQuery before JavaScript, doing oss on the side, his experiences in oss, doing an internship, participating in TC39, and some thou...

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4: Fred Schott on Breaking Changes from 2020-08-13T14:15:16

> What is a breaking change about anyway?

Fred Schott (@FredKSchott) joins Henry to have a discussion around the topic of ...

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3: Jason Miller on Compiling Your Dependencies from 2020-02-28T11:45

Jason Miller and Henry Zhu do a follow up episode on the issues around running modern JavaScript for not just your own code, but rather your dependencies (what's in node_modules). Discussed are ...

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2: Jason Miller on Modern JavaScript and the Future of preset-env from 2020-01-16T09:00

Jason Miller and Henry Zhu talk through a high level philosophy of transpilers (compilers), Babel's core mental model as the democratization of programming language design, and all nuances of th...

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1: Sebastian McKenzie on Babel and the Road to Rome from 2019-06-25T15:00

Henry chats with Sebastian McKenzie, the creator of Babel, on it's beginnings, what he's learned both technically and personally, and what this Rome thing is all about. They surmise why it was p...

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