On: Strengthening JavaScript

[BrendanEich]

I got tired of replying with true ES4-is-not-turning-JS-into-Java denials in 2007:

https://brendaneich.com/2007/11/my-media-ajax-keynote/

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[ryanisinallofus → BrendanEich]

Aren't you against this sort of thing?

"It seems to me that a lot of you "bring on our new overlords" boosters are unaware of how HTML5 came about. It was not through one vendor shipping proprietary code and standards bodies mopping up later. Study some recent history."

You convinced me 1274 days ago.

[BrendanEich → ryanisinallofus]

V8 folks promise to work with TC39 on semantics and open source the code, which helps. You're right that, worst case, this turns into another Chrome-only power play. But all signs suggest otherwise, so far.

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[rmrfrmrf → BrendanEich]

::adds "publicly spanked by Brendan Eich" to resumé::

But seriously, that article is insanely ahead of its time. Or we're progressing reeeaaally slowly. Or both.

[marrs → BrendanEich]

`type` and `like` seem like a really natural way to enforce interfaces in JS. What happened to those ideas?