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I remember hearing rumors back in the day that MS dragged its leg with ES4 because they didn't want the browser to be powerful enough runtime to compete with Wi

I remember hearing rumors back in the day that MS dragged its leg with ES4 because they didn't want the browser to be powerful enough runtime to compete with Windows. Mind you that Flesh with AS3+E4X aka Flex was powerful enough to run spreadsheet or text processor in the browser - long before Google Spreadsheet or anything similar was possible with ES5.

Marazan 6y ago
Everyone who wasn't Adobe realise that standardising on a new version of Javascript that Adobe already had a runtime and tooling for thus having the defacto implementation of would put themselves and a massive competitive disadvantage.