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CoffeeScript is popular and there is Dart. Instead of using another language and translate to JavaScript, what are the hindrances to improve JavaScript so that

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• masklinn 15y ago
  There's a very high interia, as there are at least 5 major implementations still being developped (MSIE's Chakra, Mozilla's SpiderMonkey, Google's V8, Apple/Webkit's JavaScriptCore and Opera's Carakan). Work has not stopped, but it's basically about cat-herding, and each player does his own additions. As an example, Mozilla has kept working on core Javascript with "internal" versions: 1.6 added Array Extras and String and Array generics (array extras have since then been adopted by everybody else) as well as E4X (literal XML syntax in JS) and a `for each` loop. 1.7 added generators and iterators, array comprehensions (listcomps), let definitions, statements and expressions and destructuring assignments 1.8 added a function shorthand (function (foo) { return bar; } => function (foo) bar), generator comprehensions (lazy listcomps) and two missing array extras (left and right folds) 1.8.1 and 1.8.5 mostly added ES5 and draft APIs (e.g. the Object.* stuff and the Proxy type)
• tikhonj 15y ago
  You can already remove a bunch of the bad parts via "use strict".