> Lets be honest here, Javascript (alternately known as ECMAscript [1]) has done the following: a) progressively adopted new language features like prototypes,

> Lets be honest here, Javascript (alternately known as ECMAscript [1]) has done the following: a) progressively adopted new language features like prototypes, closures, generics and the like. JavaScript had prototypes and closures from the beginning, no? Does it really have generics — a quick Googling makes it appear that it's a matter of hand-rolling. But it's been awhile since I've written JavaScript in anger, so perhaps I've missed an announcement since then.