Tue Nov 23 2010 |
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Sit down and plug in for a 10 minute discussion of bytecode standards and other such stuff in the browser and how it has been attempted (and stalled) in the past. This also goes through several of the new improvements coming in the language that will make ideal for becoming a target language and possibly facilitate preferred language syntax (python, ruby, etc) that works on the JS VM. Finally Brendan drives home the less than obvious point that each new language has its own set of oddities and garbage collections and how that would go against making the web fast.
- Why are we limited to JS in browsers - Would a bytecode standard help?
- DOM Level 0
- VBScript
- 'But Sun made it very difficult, building their complete bloated software stack from scratch.'
- Another issue related to the web speed is the amount of spam that circulates nowadays. Check this guide by Quirk Biz to learn how to check your expired domains for spam.
- LiveConnect
- Christian Heilmann
- Opera Carakan
- Version hell sucks e.g. Flash, Java
- ES5 Strict Mode
- JS Typed Arrays - MDN Link
- JS as a target language!
- Binary Encoding of JS ASTs discussion
- JSZap
