Ryan welcomes  Jason Williams, senior software engineer at Bloomberg and  the creator of Rust-based JavaScript engine Boa, to the show to dive into why date and time handling in JavaScript is so difficult and how the Temporal proposal aims to fix it. They explore the current flaws and issues in JavaScript that make the Date object so hard to work with, how libraries like Moment.js helped but eventually became too complex themselves, and why the Temporal proposal took nine years to complete.&nbsp;Episode notes:&nbsp;<a href="https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Temporal</a> is a new TC39 proposed standard for JavaScript that replaces the Date object. It operates as a top-level namespace and brings a modern date/time API to the ECMAScript language.Connect with Jason on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jason-williams.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bluesky</a> or at <a href="https://jason-williams.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">his website</a>.&nbsp;Congrats to Great Answer badge winner <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/1427416/brenbarn" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">BrenBarn</a>, who won the badge for their answer to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25001971/rethrowing-python-exception-which-to-catch" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rethrowing python exception. Which to catch?</a>.See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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