Re:Brendan Eich on Ecma TC39, JavaScript.next, and Google Dash
by SwellJoe on Sunday September 11, 2011 @07:18PM
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"More like blind future-proofing."
To me, through my own skewed historical lens, it looks like an admirable level of humility. So, good job.
While that flexibility was mostly used for evil, rather than good (vbscript, for instance), I think it probably helped build a stronger web ecosystem having competitors to the throne even if none ever really got a foothold against JavaScript.
To me, through my own skewed historical lens, it looks like an admirable level of humility. So, good job.
While that flexibility was mostly used for evil, rather than good (vbscript, for instance), I think it probably helped build a stronger web ecosystem having competitors to the throne even if none ever really got a foothold against JavaScript.