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JAVASCRIPT'S NEW SUPERPOWER: EXPLICIT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

The Explicit Resource Management proposal in JavaScript introduces deterministic resource management. It adds `using` and `await using` declarations for automatic disposal, using `Symbol.dispose` and `Symbol.asyncDispose` for cleanup. `DisposableStack` and `AsyncDisposableStack` are also introduced to manage multiple disposable resources in a coordinated manner.