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Time is a construct but it can still break your software

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Ryan interviews Jason Williams, a senior software engineer at Bloomberg and creator of the Rust-based JavaScript engine Boa, discussing the challenges of date and time handling in JavaScript and how the Temporal proposal seeks to address these issues.

MAIN POINTS
  1. Jason Williams is a senior software engineer at Bloomberg.
  2. He created Boa, a Rust-based JavaScript engine.
  3. Date and time handling in JavaScript is notoriously difficult.
  4. The Temporal proposal aims to improve JavaScript's date and time management.
TAKEAWAYS
  1. Temporal proposal offers a solution to JavaScript's date and time challenges.
  2. Boa is a JavaScript engine developed using the Rust programming language.
  3. JavaScript's current date and time handling is complex and problematic.
  4. Expert insights from Jason Williams highlight the importance of Temporal in JavaScript development.
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