Fun and profit with ECMAScript 2025: What’s new in JavaScript

In human endeavor, motivation always has a dual aspect. We do the thing for its own sake, and we also do it as a means to an end. This is especially evident in software development, an activity that sometimes makes outsiders wonder why anyone would do that for fun.

They don’t understand, and that’s okay. For many developers, software development is both something we enjoy and a job we do. We have to make a living, after all, so why not get paid to manifest our ideas in the material realm?

As you review all the activity going in the JavaScript world this month, remember to balance profit and fun. For as The Grug Brained Developer might say, “How many shiny rock grug really need anyway?”