Brendan Eich Discusses the Future of JavaScript

snydeq writes "JavaScript creator Brendan Eich talks at length about the future of JavaScript, ARAX, disputes with Microsoft, and the Screaming Monkey scripting engine for IE in an interview with InfoWorld's Paul Krill. JavaScript 2, which Mozilla's Eich expects to be available in some form by the end of the year, will 'address programming in the large.' To do that, Eich hopes to improve the integrity of the language without sacrificing flexibility and making JavaScript 'painfully static in a fixed way like Java does.' Eich does not expect Firefox support for JavaScript 2 until at least Version 3.1 of the browser. As for Internet Explorer, Eich explains how Screaming Monkey will help bring JavaScript 2 to IE should Microsoft drag its heels on providing meaningful support."

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Re:Javascripts popularity is no real suprise

[Anonymous Coward]

Crockford is a total douchebag. But not as much as javascript 2. Shitty solution for a non-existent problem.

Re:1-page version

[Anonymous Coward]

Please kill javascript. It makes pages load much slower. The gratuitous use of javascript to load pages is silly, especially when it is right beside a plain html link that does the same thing.

Javascript is dangerous and can hijack your browser to an unknown and unwanted malware site.

There is very little that javascript offers that needs to be done at all. Please eliminate it from you web sites.

Regards,

Mike Monett