#Js

https://github.com/ericf/yui3-gallery/pull/21

EMCAScript sounds like a skin disease

Brendan Eich, The Present and Future of the Web Platform, QCon San Francisco 2013

We should not confuse objects with the data structures that might implement them.

Gilad Bracha, anticipating Hacker News, et al.

“Historic baggage,” they had written. Dart, according to the leaked memo, aims to replace JS because JS can’t be fixed. But who says JS can’t be fixed? Brendan Eich, comments we do not ever stop the world, break compatibility by changing the language … leaving developers with a huge migration cliff that few will climb … Until you purists get into the muck* of web evolution and development, you won’t be effective. [Read More]

If you want to leave your mark, and if you want to change something for the better, you need to change people more than code. Write all you want, prove you’re right a hundred times over, nobody will be affected unless you change how they think and enlighten them about a better way.

Mikeal Rogers

Javascript is the New Basic

Brandon Bloom

It’s the C of the web. The to-JS languages are lining up to become the C++ of the web.

Isaac Schlueter