--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 244" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 244 published_at: "2015-08-07" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/244" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 244 This week's JavaScript news — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/244) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 244 — August 7, 2015[Getting Started with ECMAScript 6](http://www.2ality.com/2015/08/getting-started-es6.html) Dr. Axel has written many in-depth ES6 posts lately, but this is more a primer of everything you can try and how. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer [SystemJS: A Universal Dynamic Module Loader](https://github.com/systemjs/systemjs) Loads ES6 modules, AMD, CommonJS and global scripts and works with both Traceur and Babel. GitHub [Lodash: 10 JS Utility Functions That You Should Probably Stop Rewriting](http://colintoh.com/blog/lodash-10-javascript-utility-functions-stop-rewriting) A look at 10 things you might commonly handcode in JavaScript that Lodash can easily do instead. Colin Toh [![Frontend Masters\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/74f299f8.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/hi/courses/crash-course?utm_source=jsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_term=free-week&utm_content=free-week&utm_campaign=crash-course)[Get a Free Week's Worth of Training From the Masters](https://frontendmasters.com/hi/courses/crash-course?utm_source=jsweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_term=free-week&utm_content=free-week&utm_campaign=crash-course)Get access to your choice of a full-week of in-depth video lessons. Choose from either Introduction to Web Development, Angular, or Advanced JavaScript -- completely free! 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Henrik Joreteg [The JavaScript Looping Evolution](http://developer.telerik.com/featured/the-javascript-looping-evolution/) Cody Lindley walks through the changes to looping or iterating over values that are coming in ES6 (aka JavaScript 2015). Telerik Developer Network Jobs - [Fullstack Engineer At DataHero (San Francisco, CA)](https://datahero.com/jobs/?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)Join a startup that is at the center of cloud computing, data visualization, and machine learning! Recently raised series A funding, the winner of 2014 Strata Startup is looking for awesome engineers help us build our intelligent data visualization platform. DataHero - [Expert JavaScript Instructors at Pluralsight (Freelance-Part-time)](http://www.pluralsight.com/teach?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)Currently hiring expert JavaScript Developers that want to share their knowledge with a global audience. 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Pete Hunt [What Would Happen If Your Brain Were Literally JavaScript?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K0uKFE-AL4) video Jenna Zeigen [TypeScript vs Haxe, Which is the Better Compile-to-JS Language?](http://blog.onthewings.net/2015/08/05/typescript-vs-haxe/) opinion Goes into quite some depth. Andy Li [JavaScript is the C++ of the Web](http://pointersgonewild.com/2015/08/02/javascript-is-the-c-of-the-web/) opinion Is JavaScript becoming a ‘kitchen sink’ language? Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert [Pyjs: A Toolkit for Writing JavaScript-Powered Webapps in Python](http://pyjs.org/) tools It started life as a Python port of Google Web Toolkit. pyjs [jquery.stacky: Easy Stacking of Panels using jQuery](https://github.com/jachinte/jquery.stacky) code A jQuery plugin that gives you the ability to open panels horizontally on demand. 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