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No, I'm getting tired of other parties (most notably Mozilla) doing whatever they can to block such efforts on political rather than technical merits. Do we re
by georgemcbay 12y ago
No, I'm getting tired of other parties (most notably Mozilla) doing whatever they can to block such efforts on political rather than technical merits.
Do we really want to be stuck with a mostly stagnant JavaScript forever? Ugh.
- ganarajpr 12y ago+1. I hate this part about Mozilla and Apple. I dont have qualms about javascript. It has its good parts and as a full time javascript contractor I earn my living with javascript. But... I dont really want the next generation of developers to be stuck with whatever we have today. I am not in favor of "Here is what you get - do all your innovations inside this box" mentality. Yes, there is scope for improving javascript or ECMAscript but there are limits to this. As Peter Thiel says in his book - this is incremental-ism. This will never produce 0 to 1. In order to produce something like that people should be allowed to innovate - even if initially they have to do stuff like this AtScript or Dart or TypeScript! Criticizing those attempts as "breaking the existing tool-chain" is as foolish as criticizing a spaceship because it does not make use of roads.
- aikah 12y agoWell,the truth is Mozilla never blocked anything.They were on board with Adobe about ES4(basically actionscript3 in the browser).It's brands like Microsoft and Apple who ironically were the most vocal against any change in javascript.