Fri May 20 2011 |
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Fresh off of JSConf and discussing (ES|JS).next before the audience, Brendan drops a bit of insight into what it takes to update a language like JavaScript. Sorry for the delay since last episode, we generally will go into "off-season" around JSConf.
- Brendan's JSConf Presentation
- TC-39 Committee Upcoming
- "Rolling like the W3C and WHATWG with prototyping as they go."
- Idea with harmony (next major addition) is to opt in with specification of script type, lack of specific type will yield "same old JavaScript"
- adds a double layered versioning protection.
- Modules
- Lexical Scoping
- Global object will not be on the scope chain
- Upsides: security enhancements, VM implementation improvements, early error wins
- Translation, compilation, and transpilers
- Firefox 6 is in nightly channel
- Awesome, opt-in, compiles down.
