The Future of JavaScript

re: The Future of JavaScript

rbirkby — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:06:36 GMT

There are some serious things wrong with JavaScript. But a lot of the ES4 proposal goes in the right direction. My big concern about ES4 is it's emphasis on performance - especially adding strong typing to get performance. This is absolutely the wrong thing to do. JavaScript shouldn't be about out-and-out performance. There are much better languages for this. And we all know how the sort of performance you can get out of a dynamically typed language with the work of the DLR team.

The functional/C#/Pythonesque features of ES4 are great. The package/module system is great. The typing system is bad. By all means add a single new Number type which effectively is a Decimal so that 0.1+0.2===0.3.

More JavaScript discussion on Ajaxian

Scott Wiltamuth's Visual Studio blog — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:22:34 GMT

Re: my earlier post on the future of JavaScript, there is another interesting item today on Ajaxian:

re: The Future of JavaScript

scottwil — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:43:08 GMT

Thanks for your comments on ES4.

For what it's worth, I am a big fan of decimal types. It is amazing how slow programming languages have been to adopt them given the prevalence of currency in applications.

--Scott

Community Convergence XXXV

Charlie Calvert's Community Blog — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:43:30 GMT

Welcome to the thirty-fifth edition of Community Convergence. This week we have an interview with C#

re: The Future of JavaScript

Ralph — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:23:34 GMT

Strong types would be a great help to us as well as the significant speed improvements due to strong types. Our main issues with JavaScript are speed, speed and user interactivity.