The TC39 committee, which oversees JavaScript standards, advanced three JavaScript proposals to Stage 4 at its February meeting. Evolving to stage four means the proposals are ready to become part of the ECMAScript standard, which is the standard for JavaScript.
Sarah Gooding, head of content marketing at Socket, reported the JavaScript updates on the software security company’s blog. Advancing to stage four were the following proposals:
- Float16Array introduces a new typed array to handle 16-bit floating-point numbers (float16) in…