During the July 2012 meeting of TC39 [1],
classes have been accepted for ECMAScript.next, the upcoming version of
the JavaScript language standard. This...
0 replies - 2554 views - 08/08/12 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles
The next JavaScript specification is moving towards completion. TC39,
the technical committee charged with creating ES.next (also known as ES
Harmony, and...
0 replies - 1797 views - 05/09/12 by Angus Croll in Articles
It’s official! We’re getting a new function syntax! The TC39 group
(the panel charged with delivering ES 6) has reached consensus on an
abbreviated...
0 replies - 3317 views - 04/10/12 by Angus Croll in Articles
Ariya Hidayat has used his Esprima parser to count the most popular keywords in a corpus of JavaScript libraries.
The five most popular ones are (by...
1 replies - 2167 views - 03/20/12 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles
Most JavaScript programmers are aware that “normal” equality (==) should be avoided in favor of strict equality (===) [1]. However, every now and then you...
0 replies - 2026 views - 03/14/12 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles
JavaScript does not come with dedicated means for managing private data
for an object. This post describes five techniques for working around
that...
0 replies - 3154 views - 03/05/12 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles
Recently I discovered the annotated and hyperlinked ES5 refererence, which is pretty cool in itself. The hyperlinked grammar summary, for example, is...
0 replies - 2380 views - 02/17/12 by John Esposito in Articles
The next version of ECMAScript (code-named ECMAScript.next [1]) will be standardized by 2013. This post enumerates the first features that are currently being...
0 replies - 6910 views - 01/18/12 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles
We've been following ECMAScript a bit here on DZone, but so far mostly just specific suggestions, or reports on recent advances. This sort of spotty coverage...
0 replies - 2056 views - 12/07/11 by John Esposito in Articles
David Herman has a lot to say about ECMAScript.next: his Mozilla blog is full of thoughtful updates, and he's been trickling steady updates of his talk on the...
0 replies - 2641 views - 12/02/11 by John Esposito in Articles
This post examines how super-references work in JavaScript and how they
will be simplified by ECMAScript.next. To understand this post, it helps
to be...
0 replies - 1838 views - 11/30/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles
One frequently encounters the opinion that JavaScript’s prototypal
inheritance is too complicated and that it needs classes to be more
user-friendly....
0 replies - 6430 views - 11/11/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles
CoffeeScript, node.js, ECMAScript, and even Google's new Dart usurper language were topics of discussion last week when I had the unique opportunity to meet...
3 replies - 12832 views - 09/13/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
On July 9th, Brendan Eich announced that Rick Waldron had prototyped [1] two new methods for ECMAScript.next: Array.from() and Array.of(). Both methods are...
0 replies - 1940 views - 07/27/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in News
Two questions:
What is the difference between JavaScript and ECMAScript?
What is the difference between ECMAScript Harmony and ECMAScript.next? ...
0 replies - 2688 views - 06/28/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles
