Archive for March 1st, 2007
JavaScript2
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
I ran across this gigantic post on what Steve Yegge calls the “Next Big Language” and I’m saving it here partly for my own reference, partly to comment on what it is exactly.
He tries to keep it a secret, but it’s obviously JavaScript 2, or ECMAScript 4, whatever you want to call it. “JS2″ will stick better. I’ve always thought JavaScript was quite an elegant language, if only because functions are first-class. Add optional static typing, and all the other features he lists, and it looks like it won’t suck. I can only hope it keeps some of the simplicity and flexibility of JavaScript in its current state…
If you’re interested, click through this slideshow on JavaScript 2 and the Future of the Web, or look at Mozilla’s Tamarin Project. It really looks like a complete and useful language, and it makes sense that if the web is the “next big thing” then the next big language will be the one and only language that runs on it.
Until it gets there, I’ll keep up with my JS1 skillz and get some Ajax going in the zenphoto backend…
1.0.8 in a few minutes. 