If you’ve been paying attention in Ember lately you may have heard the term “Octane” floating around here and there recently, and wondered what all the excitement was about. It may seem like a bit of a big deal - and that’s because it kind of is!

Part 1 in a 5-part series covering: native classes, angle bracket syntax & named arguments, tracked properties, modifiers, and Glimmer components. Part 2 is out as well.

KBall and Chad Hietala meet up at JSConf and talk about compilers for the frontend, Ember’s binary opcodes, webassembly, and the future of performance optimization for the web.

Katie Gengler:

Ember has been humming along for years, with direction set by the core team, based on their instincts, experiences, and community interactions. And it’s worked well!

As our community grows though, the sheer volume of good ideas makes it hard to rely on our core team and primary influencers to collect all the great ideas out there. So we’re updating the process to help give voice to all those of you who want it.

The Ember team would like you to write a blog post to propose goals and direction for Ember in the remainder of 2018. The content of these posts will help us to draft our first Roadmap RFC.

To contribute, tweet a link to it with the hashtag #EmberJS2018 or email a link to roadmap@emberjs.com.

We talk with Chad Hietala about Ember JS, the long history of Ember, how Chad first got involved, his work on the Ember core team, Glimmer, and more.