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JavaScript's New Superpower: Explicit Resource Management


The Explicit Resource Management proposal empowers developers to explicitly manage the lifecycle of resources.

These additions enable developers to write more robust, performant, and maintainable code by providing fine-grained control over resource disposal. This distinction enables developers to reliably manage both synchronous and asynchronous resources, preventing leaks and improving overall code quality. Integration of[Symbol.dispose] and[Symbol.asyncDispose] in web APIs like streams may happen in the future, so developers do not have to write the manual wrapper object.

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