ECMAScript ("Javascript") Version 4 - Official Overview

[Ian Petersen]

On 10/22/07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Ehm, so what it might be implemented by microsoft in IE8 which is due
> around 2012 or so?  Maybe they will do CSS2 while they are at it. :)

Your cynicism is warranted, but ECMAScript is very useful outside the
browser, too.

I just finished reading the document that Scott linked to, and it
seems like ECMAScript 2 will be an interesting language.  The most
exciting additions for me are multimethods (very reminiscent of Lisp,
but the document compares it to Dylan, with which I'm unfamiliar),
type annotations, and namespaces.  It would be nice to have an IDE
that can do code completion and refactoring on ECMAScript.

Ian

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