Anne van Kesteren

ECMAScript 4 (ES4)

I’m probably reading the wrong blogs, but it seems that ECMAScript 4 doesn’t get too much coverage. I mostly do simple stuff with ECMAScript, such as making testcases for XMLHttpRequest, but an update to the Web’s programming language certainly does excite me. Some (public) information I found:

• ECMAScript4, the Language of the Web by Rob Sayre on Yahoo! and Microsoft not being behind ECMAScript 4.
• ECMAScript 4 overview paper on Lambda the Ultimate has an interesting thread where several people from the ECMAScript comittee, such as Lars Thomas Hansen and Brendan Eich, are involved in the discussion.
• ECMAScript contains links to all things ECMAScript.

The Mozilla version of ECMAScript 4 is called JavaScript 2 by the way. Just so you know. JavaScript is basically a name for ECMAScript plus extensions.