Brendan Eich: New JavaScript Engine Module Owner
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Brendan Eich: New JavaScript Engine Module Owner
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Re: Brendan Eich: New JavaScript Engine Module Owner
#2Is that likely to have a significant impact on the way we write Javascript today?
Re: Brendan Eich: New JavaScript Engine Module Owner
#3Is that likely to have a significant impact on the way we write Javascript today?
No. JavaScript is (now) important enough that no one person has that much influence over it.
Re: Brendan Eich: New JavaScript Engine Module Owner
#4Is that likely to have a significant impact on the way we write Javascript today?
SpiderMonkey and Mozilla as a whole have a mission-based commitment to implement draft standards, so to the extent that we have prototyped Proxies, WeakMaps, generators, let, and other extensions now approved for "ES.next", the module has influence. Upstream of it is the Ecma TC39 process, about which I spoke recently:
http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/txjs-talk
There are a number of influential people on the committee. It's a committee, the economics make this inevitable. But we have pretty good core group of people who work on the standard and try to serve JS as a programming language, not as a techno-political bargaining chip or mere means to a business-agenda end.
Re: Brendan Eich: New JavaScript Engine Module Owner
#5Any reason for doing so..
Re: Brendan Eich: New JavaScript Engine Module Owner
#6From the title, I thought there was a new engine, but it's a new owner.
Re: Brendan Eich: New JavaScript Engine Module Owner
#7The end of an era, no matter how minor a procedural change this is. The impact that Eich has had on the average computer user is unimaginable to me.
Thanks, Brendan.
Re: Brendan Eich: New JavaScript Engine Module Owner
#8Any reason for doing so..
See comments, stay tuned. And really, was I supposed to go on for life? :-P