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JavaScript was originally as "open" as Dart. It was developed by Netscape and was only supported by their browser. It quickly became popular so Microsoft had to
by copx 13y ago
JavaScript was originally as "open" as Dart. It was developed by Netscape and was only supported by their browser. It quickly became popular so Microsoft had to write their own implementation to stay competitive. Only after that JavaScript was standardized.
- kevingadd 13y agoI don't think anyone would advocate for repeating the history of JavaScript; everyone involved seems to agree that it turned out pretty poorly, and it took a huge amount of hard work to get to where we are now with ES5/ES6. It's true that Dart and JS are the same in this regard, but it's not 1995. If Dart was introduced in 1995, it'd certainly deserve to beat LiveScript and we'd probably be using it now.
- ahoge 13y agoJavaScript turned out poorly because the first version was quickly thrown together (within 10 days, supposedly) by a single person. Furthermore, this person didn't care about tooling and he also didn't have any clue about optimizing virtual machines. Anyhow, any language or piece of technology needs to reach a certain state of maturity before it can be standardized. Once you standardized something, things are pretty much set in stone.