More on the Future of JavaScript

14th May 2006 | 0 Comments

I was visiting a site called Ajaxian this morning and noticed a nice little post about the future of JavaScript. Specifically, there is a link to a presentation that Brendan Eich gave on JavaScript 2. For those of you who don't know, Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript and works at the Mozilla Foundation.

Besides giving examples of new JavaScript 2 syntax, there is a little timeline on when these features will make it out into the wild. JS 1.7 appears in Firefox 2 and JS 1.9 appears in Firefox 3. Unfortunately, it looks like the JavaScript 2 spec will be finalized after Firefox 3 is released (early 2007), hence it's version being called 1.9.