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SpiderMonkey and Mozilla as a whole have a mission-based commitment to implement draft standards, so to the extent that we have prototyped Proxies, WeakMaps, ge
by BrendanEich 15y ago
SpiderMonkey and Mozilla as a whole have a mission-based commitment to implement draft standards, so to the extent that we have prototyped Proxies, WeakMaps, generators, let, and other extensions now approved for "ES.next", the module has influence. Upstream of it is the Ecma TC39 process, about which I spoke recently:
http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/txjs-talk http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/txjs-talk
There are a number of influential people on the committee. It's a committee, the economics make this inevitable. But we have pretty good core group of people who work on the standard and try to serve JS as a programming language, not as a techno-political bargaining chip or mere means to a business-agenda end.