ECMAScript 2017: the final feature set

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Update 2017-01-29: At the TC39 meeting in January 2017, the last feature of ECMAScript 2017, “Shared memory and atomics” advanced to stage 4. That means that its feature set is now complete, as listed below.

The features of ECMAScript 2017

Major new features:

• Async Functions (Brian Terlson)
• Shared memory and atomics (Lars T. Hansen)

Minor new features:

• Object.values/Object.entries (Jordan Harband)
• String padding (Jordan Harband, Rick Waldron)
• Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptors() (Jordan Harband, Andrea Giammarchi)
• Trailing commas in function parameter lists and calls (Jeff Morrison)