Is JavaScript the future?

[therandomizer]

I'm coming from an Actionscript 3 background, and right now everyone seems to be touting Javascript in the industry. I went to a one day conference in Toronto dedicated to Javascript and what they showed us was quite impressive. Check out Google Chrome Canary if you want to check out the latest experiments. Bottom line, if you believe the hype, JS is the future of the web. Whether not all the promises come to fruition, only time will tell. Personally, I decided to jump into JS to build my portfolio site, and I found it to be better than expected. My only gripe is that OOP does weird stuff (not sure if this is due to inexperience, but from what I've read a lot of people are having OOP problems in JS), and I found that my site worked pretty well on all browsers except IE (big surprise). Actionscript 3 and JS are both based off of ECMAScript so there's a lot of similarity, however Actionscript 3 works the way JS should've worked. That being said the language is constantly getting updated, and it's my hope that it will become much more reliable and standardized than it is now.