Welcome to Syntax. Today we're talking about what is missing from the web platform.

The web platform, JavaScript, CSS, browsers, runtimes, syntax, APIs, all of that stuff.

The last, I don't know, maybe two or three years, we've gotten just this massive swath of APIs that if you walk up to most developers and say, hey, like, what do you need?

What's missing? A lot of people will go, hmm, like, man, things are actually in a pretty good shape.

But there's still a handful of things that are missing from the web, from us being able to build the best apps possible.

So what we're gonna do is we asked on Twitter,

me and Scott have a huge list ourselves,

a big wish list.

We're gonna go through all of the different things

that we wish we had from like primitives in the UI,

different types of syntax we'd like to see added

to JavaScript, different APIs we'd like to see added to JavaScript, different APIs.

We'd like added Bluetooth, serial NFC, and then CSS browsers, as well as, of course, we'll talk

about the AI access and what those APIs might even look like in the browser.

My name is Wes Boss.

I'm a developer from Canada.

With me, as always, is Scott Tillensky. Scott's a little hurt today. Do you want to give us the lowdown? You know, I'm always hurting. I feel like, uh, I feel like every other episode we do, I got some something going on. Some ailment. Some ailment. Yeah. No, I had it, I had an elective surgery done. I couldn't breathe. I had a deviated septum, so they had to go in and, uh, uh, I'll save any of the gory details. They opened things up and fixed all that stuff. Slice them right up. Yeah, so I can breathe. Like I was snoring and stuff and it's not like sleep apnea. It's just because I broke my nose or whatever happened. Recovery is not usually that bad. I was supposed to be good by like Saturday, Sunday, you know, after a surgery on Wednesday. And for the most part, my nose feels great. But I had some from the trachea they put in. My throat is all jacked. So I got throat numbness going on. I'm on some drugs, but I feel

I feel ready to go. I can talk. Yeah, let's go. I'm excited about this actually because I was

looking over your episode notes and I had a couple of wild ideas myself of things that are

not likely. But yeah, yeah, I know I'm I'm I'm curious because the web does seem like there's just awesome stuff all the time these days.

And I'm excited for what could be, you know?

Yeah.

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