Wes and Scott React to the State of JS

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Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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0:00.0	You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out
0:06.0	there.
0:07.0	Strap yourself in and get ready.
0:08.0	Here is Scott Tolesky and West Boss.
0:11.4	Welcome to Syntax, this is the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out
0:15.4	there.
0:16.4	Today we've got a show on the state of JS.
0:19.9	This is a huge survey that happens every single year and there are all kinds of interesting
0:25.0	nuggets in terms of the language and backend and front end libraries and testing and
0:30.1	tools and resources and what's the best podcast out there.
0:33.8	So we're going to just kind of just go through it all together and this is more of like a
0:39.8	YouTube reaction video, but Scott and I will try to lend our two cents to some of these,
0:47.0	some of the results and why we think so and what surprised us and whatnot.
0:51.3	We are sponsored by three awesome companies today.
0:54.1	First one is Linode, Linux cloud hosting.
0:56.8	Second one is log rocket JavaScript session replay and fresh books, the cloud accounting
1:01.4	solution you need.
1:02.4	We'll talk about all of them partway through the episode with me as always is Mr. Scott
1:06.5	Tolesky.
1:07.5	How are you doing today, Scott?
1:08.5	Hey, I am doing better, I'm doing better than I was yesterday.
1:13.1	I was very sick.
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