--- title: "This week's JavaScript news, issue 216" publication: "JavaScript Weekly" issue: 216 published_at: "2015-01-23" canonical_url: "https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/216" --- This week's JavaScript news, issue 216 ECMAScript 2015, a programming game, a tour of client-side testing, ES6 template strings, and more. — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://javascriptweekly.com/issues/216) JavaScript WeeklyIssue 216 — January 23, 2015[ECMAScript 2015: The New Name for ECMAScript 6/ES6?](https://esdiscuss.org/topic/javascript-2015) An interesting thread on esdiscuss in which numerous well known JavaScript developers, including Brendan Eich, talk about ‘ECMAScript 2015’, the name for the spec formerly known as ES6. Brendan notes that ‘ES6 = ECMAScript 2015, ES7 = ECMAScript 2016, etc.’ esdiscuss [Elevator Saga: A JavaScript Elevator Programming Game](http://play.elevatorsaga.com/) An online programming game where you have to program an elevator system to transport people around a building. Be warned, this may steal an hour of your day - it did to me. Magnus Wolffelt [![PubNub\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/cd16eaf2.png)](http://www.pubnub.com/developers/tutorials/publish-subscribe/?utm_source=jsweekly=jsweekly12315=jsweekly)[Publish/Subscribe Quick Start Guide](http://www.pubnub.com/developers/tutorials/publish-subscribe/?utm_source=jsweekly=jsweekly12315=jsweekly)Add Publish/Subscribe messaging to any JavaScript app in 5 simple steps. 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HTML5DevConf [Getting Literal With ES6 Template Strings](http://updates.html5rocks.com/2015/01/ES6-Template-Strings) Strings in JavaScript have been historically limited, lacking the capabilities one might expect coming from languages like Python or Ruby. ES6 Template Strings (available in Chrome 41+), fundamentally change that. Addy Osmani Jobs - [Front-End Engineer @ Expensify (San Francisco, CA)](http://we.are.expensify.com/why-work-here/?utm_source=javascriptweekly&utm_medium=email)Expense reports suck! Our dream is to make expense reporting as intuitive as possible by leveraging new APIs and technologies. We’re looking for a rockstar front-end specialist to join our team and take on this UX challenge with us. 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View The Space In Brief [Microsoft Debuts TypeScript 1.4](http://www.infoworld.com/article/2873536/application-development/microsoft-typescript-update-ecmascript.html) news The latest version of Microsoft’s JavaScript alternative includes support for ES6. 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