JavaScript – The past and beyond
Tuesday, June 21st, 2005Brendan Eich writes about JavaScript and it’s future especially concerning JS 2.x.
Brendan writes “With DHTML and AJAX
hot (or hot again; we’ve been here before, and I don’t like either acronym), I am asked frequently these days about JavaScript, past and future. In spite of the fact that JS was misnamed (I will call it JS in the rest of this entry), standardized prematurely, then ignored and stagnated during most of its life, its primitives are strong enough that whole ecologies of toolkit and web-app code have emerged on top of it. (I don’t agree with everything Doug Crockford writes at the last two links, but most of his arrows hit their targets.)”
* Brendan’s Roadmap Updates: JavaScript 1, 2, and in between
