Google SoundScript: faster OOP for JavaScript

Re:Google SoundScript: faster OOP for JavaScript by jerf on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @03:29PM (#8999510)

I'm not sure you read the article. "Soundscript" is just a fancy name for "notifying the Javascript interpreter that you promise never to do certain things, thus the interpreter can stop checking for them on every access and the optimizer is allowed to make stronger assumptions". It's not a new language so much as slightly different 100%-backwards-compatible dialect.

It is a way of deliberately putting down some of the often-silly dynamism Javascript provides.

Whether it takes off or not, I can't call it a "contender to replace Javascript" when it is Javascript.

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Re:Google SoundScript: faster OOP for JavaScript by fineline on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @05:18PM (#9000380)

100% Backwards compatible? So this will work in IE6? Or 7, or 8, or 9, or 10?

I think you meant 100% backwards compatible with ES6. As far as that goes, it sounds like a pretty good addition to the ES6 standard.

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