Yes it's true I don't think that universities are directly involved in that sort of innovation. What I meant is that they're supposed to produce smart people who invent something new, not necessarily via academic research. Thanks for that list too. Regarding the repeated "ad company", it would be nice to see something modern-day Adobe which isn't an ad company and Macromedia that are _real_ software companies.
1. Optional Chaining and Nullish Coalescing is everything that they could come up with in the last 5 years. Private fields in javascript. God please what is wrong with these people.
2. If you look at resources, you have css-tricks as n1. Clearly there's very little number of Software Engineers / Computer Scientists in the JS world which doesn't have to be because if you're skilled you can take massive advantage of the cool prototypal programming language like JS. yet I bet 95% of the JS "community" hasn't even got a clue what a prototype is.
3. Additionally, you can see how the tools are skewed towards react/webpack but server-side JS can be just as powerful, yet there isn't much innovation in there. So that confirms the previous 2 points that the "state" of javascript, is just a homogeneous webpack/typescript bunch of people who think the exactly same.
There are so many real engineers who work with proper programming languages, and they get terrified when they see the "state" of javascript and curse it. I've worked with JS for the past 5 years and I don't blame them. There hasn't been a professional approach to software development in the JS world, everyone's obsessed with their tools instead of applying skill. But I'll change it this year. If you're a back-end engineer looking for a simple, yet very powerful solution to build your js/widgets, you'll get it soon. not free thank you.