Recommended viewing: Brendan Eich’s “ECMA Harmony and the Future of JavaScript”
Tiffany B. Brown (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
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YUI Theater — Brendan Eich: “ECMA Harmony and the Future of JavaScript”
Yahoo! User Interface Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Brendan Eich, JavaScript’s creator, gave the opening-night keynote at last week’s YUICONF 2009. His talk, “ECMA Harmony and the Future of JavaScript,” related some of the technical, corporate and social processes that have marked the recent history of the language. It’s a fascinating story. As the next release of ECMAScript (now ECMAScript [...]
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Eich: JavaScript getting faster, could kill off Flash
InfoWorld (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
JavaScript , the now-ubiquitous scripting language popular in client-side Web development, has gotten faster and could find itself being used instead of Adobe Flash technology, Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, told InfoWorld.
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YUI Theater — Todd Kloots: “Building Accessible Widgets with YUI 3″
Yahoo! User Interface Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... discusses the recent ECMA5 development process and efforts to improve the language in the future. Brendan Eich: ECMA Harmony and the Future of JavaScript — Brendan Eich, the creator of the world’s most popular programming language, talks about the struggle over the ES4 proposal and how it resulted in a specific set of proposals for ES5. Luke Smith: Events Evolved — YUI...
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Google goes forward with Go language
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... C. [ Last week, InfoWorld discussed where JavaScript could be headed with the language's creator, Brendan Eich. ] "Go is a great language for systems programming with support for multi-processing, a fresh and lightweight take on object-oriented design, plus some cool features like true closures and reflection," the team said. "Want to write a server with thousands of...
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YUICONF 2009 Wrap-up
Yahoo! User Interface Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... Events have come in YUI 3, in Luke Smith’s Events Evolved session . The instant classic that was Brendan Eich’s keynote . A giant teddy bear making a cameo appearance in a couple of sessions Thursday afternoon. Dav Glass’ infectious enthusiasm in his Contributing to YUI session. The really sweet tips dispensed in Todd Kloot’s YUI Sugar session. (The video’s coming — you don’t want...
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YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: “The State and Future of ECMAScript”
Yahoo! User Interface Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Yahoo!’s JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford gave the closing keynote at YUICONF 2009 last week. His talk, “The State and Future of ECMAScript,” was a detailed take on the events that Brendan Eich discussed the night before. Douglas addresses the current ECMAScript 5 proposals (coming up for vote at ECMA in December), details some [...]
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Pictures from YUICONF 2009
Yahoo! User Interface Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Here are some pictures coming in on Flickr from YUICONF2009 on a day that concluded with the father of JavaScript, Brendan Eich, talking about the future of the language: This was a day that started with a kickoff from YUI project founder Thomas Sha and ended with Brendan Eich. In between were technical explorations by [...]
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W3C Developer Gathering Next Week; Registration Closes Today
QA Weblog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Next week's W3C Developer Gathering will bring together some great speakers: Leslie Daigle (ISOC) on Internet Ecosystem Health Mark Davis (Unicode Consortium) on controversies around international domain names Brendan Eich (Mozilla) on "ECMA Harmony and the Future of JavaScript" Fantasai...
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In the Wild for October 22, 2009
Yahoo! User Interface Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
With YUI 2.8.0, YUI 3.0.0, and PHP Loader 1.0.0 beta 1 out the door, the team here is focused on our final big objective for the year: YUICONF2009. Brendan Eich and Douglas Crockford will be keynoting next week at our first public, YUI-focused conference. In addition to the YUI engineers presenting sessions, we’re [...]
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Coders At Work
Hugh's ramblings (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
... the age spectrum, Brad Fitzpatrick, scary-smart creator of LiveJournal and memcached. Don Knuth. Brendan Eich (JavaScript) and Doug Crockford (JavaScript, Habitat). Dan Ingalls (Smalltalk), Guy Steele (Scheme), Joe Armstrong (Erlang) and Simon Peyton Jones (Haskell); and more besides. They’re talking about the process of building software — how to approach a problem, how they debug...