YUI Theater — Brendan Eich: “ECMA Harmony and the Future of JavaScript”

November 3, 2009 at 7:07 am by Eric Miraglia | In YUI Theater | 4 Comments

Brendan Eich, JavaScript’s creator, gave the opening-night keynote at last week’s YUICONF 2009. His talk, “ECMA Harmony and the Future of JavaScript,” related some of the technical, corporate and social processes that have marked the recent history of the language. It’s a fascinating story. As the next release of ECMAScript (now ECMAScript 5.0) comes up for a vote in December, there remains some dissent, with IBM still indicating discomfort. But the prospect of ECMAScript moving ahead to a new version looks increasingly plausible. Brendan’s perspective on this is both strikingly open and deeply committed. Our thanks to him for the talk and for allowing us to share it here.

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4 Comments

thank you YUI, but where the slides ?

Comment by mostafa farghaly — November 8, 2009 #
Mostafa — We’re trying to get the slides, but we haven’t been able to yet. A full transcript of the talk, however, is available here: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=eich-yuiconf2009-harmony –Eric

Comment by Eric Miraglia — November 9, 2009 #
Ok… but, where are the slides? (its been 3 months now).

Comment by Perry Smith — January 30, 2010 #
Perry,

Although we made a number of requests, we were unable to get the slides from Brendan. We’ll have to make do with the video and the transcript.

-Eric

Comment by Eric Miraglia — January 30, 2010 #

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