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By bloid
via blog.mozilla.com
Published: Nov 04 2007 / 01:03
Sorry, Scoble. Even if Microsoft never implements a word of ECMAScript 4, things will not get worse for web developers. That’s because no one wants to change the way ECMAScript 3 (aka JavaScript or JScript) works. Everything that works now will continue to work, though there are a few minor bug fixes that everyone can agree on. Aside from that, there are new additions to the language, but web developers absolutely do not have to use any of them. However, the new features can be freely mixed with old code. ECMAScript 4 has some better security features for example, so Ajax library authors may want to serve ES4 library implementations to newer browsers, while preserving the old ES3 code for older browsers. The code that uses the libraries wouldn’t need to change at all.
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dzonelurker replied ago:
The "it's in the language but you don't have to know and use it" mantra is common among the language bloaters of all languages. It's only for us advanced users, they argue, and it won't harm you Dummies. Gradually a formerly clean and lean language turns into a big mess. Examples? C++, Java, ... JavaScript? Not to mention the numerous libraries and frameworks that once started out with simple interfaces and then were 'improved' by gurus to an unusable state.
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