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MS, Mozilla Clashing Over JavaScript Update

Posted by Zonk on from the minor-frustration-of-the-titans dept.

jfruhlinger writes "JavaScript has become a crucial part of Websites built on AJAX underpinnings, which makes the upcoming revision to the ECMAScript standard crucial for the future of the Web. But in today's browser environment, no one vendor can impose an update path — which may set things up for a nasty conflict. A fight is being fought on blogs between Mozilla Chief Technology Officer (and creator of JavaScript) Brendan Eich, who wants to the new ECMAScript standard to be a radical upgrade, and Chris Wilson, architect of MS's IE team, who would rather keep JavaScript as is and put new functionality into a brand-new language."

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  1. Re:About Silverlight? by badriram · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No Microsoft is not pushing Sliverlight and WPF here. OR saying scripting does not need to be extended. They are saying there needs something better than javascript and maybe push DLR, IronRuby, IronPhython, and any other languages you can bind to something like DLR.

    If brenden is saying MS does not want anything new, he is just being a liar. I have read all their blog posts, and you might want to as well.

    Frankly anyone that thinks the present javascript is worthwhile keeping just has not programmed enough in it. It is not the language itself, but the differing implementations, APIs and features suck. So what we have here is that ECMAScript/JS is a waste of time improving without causing too much trouble for developers.

    The best bet is to move to a language neutral dynamic runtime. It is does not have to be DLR, or CLR or JVM. But we need a better runtime, and API. And the sooner i can forget about javascript and be able to code in a better framework the happier my job will be.