Updates from the 95th TC39 meeting

There were several items on the agenda, this post focuses on feature proposals and their progress from the 95th TC39 meeting.

Stage 3:

• Async Explicit Resource Management: Address a common pattern in software development regarding the lifetime and management of various resources (memory, I/O, etc.).

• import attribute: Import Assertions re-adanced to Stage-3. Proposal for syntax to import ES modules with options, e.g. for JSON modules.

Stage 2:

• Async Context: proposal is to provide a mechanism to ergonomically track async contexts in JavaScript.

• Float16Array: Float16 on TypedArrays, DataView, Math.f16round.

• Iterator.range: A proposal for ECMAScript to add a built-in Iterator.range()

Stage 1:

• Await Dictionary: A proposal to add Promise.ownProperties(), Promise.fromEntries()

• Class Method Parameter Decorators: Decorators for ECMAScript class method and constructor parameters

• Promise.withResolvers: Creates a Promise with the reject,resolveandpromise functions placed as methods
  on the promise object itself.

• Time Zone Canonicalization: TC39 Proposal (stacked on Temporal) to improve handling of changes to the IANA Time Zone Database.