Web dev is finally getting good

Several significant web platform developments are converging: Chrome is experimenting with out-of-order HTML streaming via declarative partial updates using processing instruction markers and the template element, enabling servers to deliver page sections as their data becomes available without JavaScript workarounds. Chrome is also experimenting with rendering real DOM elements inside canvas, preserving browser interactions like text selection and accessibility. ECMAScript 2026 has been officially approved, adding Math.sumPrecise, iterator concat, Array.fromAsync, Map.getOrInsert, and improved JSON handling. TypeScript 7.0 has shipped with its compiler fully rewritten in Go, delivering roughly 10x faster build times through native execution, shared memory, and multi-threading — compiling the VS Code codebase dropped from 126 seconds to under 11 seconds.