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Syntax Snack Pack: Google Enters the CLI Game, JS Gets More Async, and TC39 Keeps Shuffling

Published 3 months ago • 3 min read

A Tasty Treats NEWSLETTER for Web Developers

Issue #48:

  • Google just launched its answer to Claude Code and Codex — but is it ready for primetime?
  • The case for personal blogs, small sites, and making the web weird again
  • TC39 pushes several proposals to Stage 4 — including one that might change how you handle errors
  • Should junior devs actually be learning to code... or just learning to prompt?
  • We drafted VS Code extensions like they were NFL players. No regrets.

RESTOCKEDDD!

​Google’s Version of Claude Code launched today

FROM wes

Google’s Gemini CLI launched today - their own version of Claude Code / OpenAI Codex CLI. Comes with a massive 1 million token context window and a generous free tier. Wes has hit a few bumps this morning already but hoping things smooth out.

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​Small (web) is beautiful

HAND PLUCKED by cj

The web is a very different place when we all share our opinions, what we've learned or what we're interested in long form on our own sites. The author makes a great case for why you should be blogging.

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​JavaScript's upcoming Temporal API and what problems it will solve​

ANOTHER ONE FROM CJ!

A no nonsense breakdown of how the Temporal API will make working with Dates in JS a breeze.

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​TC39 Advances Several Proposals to Stage 4​

cj again, are we surprised?

Array.fromAsync, Error.isError and explicit resource management have all made it into the ECMAScript spec!

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just for fun:

​pointerpointer.com

fun PROVIDED by cj

It points at your pointer...

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All Hail The Algorithm

Some good stuff™ we posted this week

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​SHAMELESS PLUG​

Seer, Sentry’s AI Debugger, is Generally Available

Meet Seer— Sentry's new AI agent that taps into all the issue context from Sentry and your codebase to not just guess, but root cause gnarly issues and propose merge-ready fixes specific to your application.

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