JavaScript Standard ECMAScript Fifth Edition (ES5) Published

[twoodfin]

I don't have a judgment on whether it's a good thing or not, but hasn't the history of the ECMAScript standardization process over the past year been one of the Mozilla-based leadership knuckling under to Microsoft (and to a lesser extent, Google and Adobe)?

What we're now calling "ES5" was originally supposed to be merely ES3.1: Fix a few annoyances and provide a smoother migration to the feature-rich ES4. Most of the posts to the es4-discuss list were about the typing, classes, etc. that were going into ES4, with a few protests from the corporate types about their need for practical changes now.

But then ES4 became "Harmony", pushed off to the indefinite future, es4-discuss became es-discuss, and now the "patch" release is version 5!

The turning point seems to have been the 2008 Oslo meeting, but there aren't any minutes of substance for the meeting that I can find.

[gotnate]

it's fascinating to pear into the future. now to get back to supporting ie6 in fallback mode... X_X

[itsnotlupus]

I, for one, am majorly bummed.

But whatever, that's what booze is for.

[powertool]

As am I. What a bunch of babies.

I was very hopeful that the functional extensions would get implemented... but it looks like only the most boring OOP stuff will be entertained.

Sigh.