Miguel De Icaza: CLI on the Web.

Re:Miguel De Icaza: CLI on the Web. by 10ren on Monday May 03, 2010 @07:27PM (#1316449)

I like the JS bytecode idea, but it won't be as powerful as Java or .NET in terms of performance.

Pertinent example: Flash improved its performance enormously from AS2 (ActionScript) to AS3, and one thing they did was add type info. Pertinent because AS is JS.

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Re:Miguel De Icaza: CLI on the Web. by mmastrac on Monday May 03, 2010 @07:40PM (#1316477)

ECMAscript 4 was supposed to bring these features to Javascript, but it ended up dead due to standards-committee politics:

http://ajaxian.com/archives/ecmascript-edition-4-brendan-spe...

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2007/10/open...

http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-future-of-ecmascript-3-is-4

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Re:Miguel De Icaza: CLI on the Web. by fauigerzigerk on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @02:22AM (#1317281)

No, not just due to standards-committee politics. Many people didn't like ECMAScript 4 for good reason. I read the spec. It's monstrous. I have hardly ever seen a language with so many overlapping, redundant, completely pointless language features. I'm glad it's dead and I hope it doesn't become undead one day.

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