Subj : Re: JS2 Status? To : Erik Arvidsson From : Brendan Eich Date : Mon Dec 01 2003 11:05 am Erik Arvidsson wrote: > What is the current status of Javascript 2.0 and the ECMAScript Edition > 4? I haven't heard anything about this for quite a while. Cc'ing waldemar in case he knows. > One of the main reason for asking this is that there are popping up more > and more implementations for this unfinished language and without a > specification these might diverge too much. There is a draft spec. Any idea about what areas are incomplete or ambiguous? Also, can you give links to these implementations? Thanks. > Another thing is that I think JS2 might help Mozilla as an application > platform because typed code can be a lot faster than non typed one > (easier to optimize and less need for runtime checks) as well as easier > to maintain. True, but no one is finding significant time spent in interpreted JS in profiles of user-level tasks. Some XUL hackers do want JS2 features, but their desire has not turned into demand that can pay for the cost of implementing JS2. /be .