In 2022, the future of Ember is taking shape thanks to developers like Godfrey Chan. Alongside Yehuda Katz and other engineers, Godfrey’s working on a new edition of Polaris. The project has three main goals: to align Ember with the modern npm packaging system, continue to invest and innovate in reactivity, and encourage universal design principles. Like many developers, Godfrey came to Ember from Rails. Months after chatting with Yehuda and Tom Dale at EmberConf, Godfrey was hired at Tilde and thrown into the Ember deep end. Today, Godfrey’s focused on big picture developments, tackling lofty goals like developing an Ember model to navigate JavaScript classes. In this episode, Godfrey talks with Chuck and Robbie about what’s to come for Polaris, solving major developer headaches, Godfrey’s philosophy on frameworks, top use cases for solutions like Starbeam, and why these innovations are necessary in 2022.