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Re:JSConf 2009 by voodootikigod on Friday November 14, 2008 @02:16PM (#364670)
Appreciate the comments and you are right, I need to be less aggressive. If you don't mind me being a bit of a revisionist, let me turn it back and open the question back in a different way. Assuming there was an open forum to delve into some of the deep technical and community aspects of JavaScript, what would you identify as some of them?
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Re:JSConf 2009 by jamesbritt on Friday November 14, 2008 @04:46PM (#364834)
Off the top of my head, and based on assorted discussions with local geeks:

* Concern over the possible direction of JavaScript such that is gets burdened with a Java-esque type system and looses some of its dynamic sweetness

* A discussion on various ways to hook into core objects to extend behavior

* Exploration of non-browser uses for JavaScript

* Current tools and techniques for testing

* Comparison of various JavaScript interpreters

* Learning how to stop writing C or Java in JavaScript; i.e. understanding dynamic, protoype-based programming

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