Comments on: JavaScript Harmony: The JS Train Is Moving http://almaer.com/blog/javascript-harmony-the-js-train-is-moving blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Sat, 08 Sep 2012 07:06:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brendan Eich http://almaer.com/blog/javascript-harmony-the-js-train-is-moving/comment-page-1#comment-47888 Brendan Eich Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:41:23 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/?p=2931#comment-47888 Hi Dion, thanks for the kind words. One thing to add: Douglas's advice has the advantage that it will continue to work for a long time. Writing scripts that work in old and new browsers will mean writing in the "JS-in-reality" dialect, or using a translator from Harmony for old browsers while loading directly in new, or of course using CoffeeScript or another language front end. For the "JS-in-reality", Crock's advice works, and I don't see us ever breaking things there except around the edges, and in good ways like typeof null, and using only one hand's fingers to count the breaks. /be Hi Dion, thanks for the kind words. One thing to add: Douglas’s advice has the advantage that it will continue to work for a long time. Writing scripts that work in old and new browsers will mean writing in the “JS-in-reality” dialect, or using a translator from Harmony for old browsers while loading directly in new, or of course using CoffeeScript or another language front end.

For the “JS-in-reality”, Crock’s advice works, and I don’t see us ever breaking things there except around the edges, and in good ways like typeof null, and using only one hand’s fingers to count the breaks.

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