In what ways can empirical evidence be used in the design of a language like JavaScript? At TC39, as stewards of the JavaScript specification, how do we answer questions about the design of JavaScript and help make it accessible to the thousands of new coders who join the industry each year? To answer this we need to experiment, and I…
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29 May 2019
6 Nov 2007
ES4 News Some news on language size: the proposed ECMAScript 4th edition (ES4) grammar is a bit more than twice as big as ES3’s, counting several ways (concrete productions, abstract syntax tree node types): Syntax ES3 ES4 ------ --- --- Concrete 238 490 Type Exprs 50 Classes & Interfaces 23 Patterns 17 Abstract 33 77 This … Continue reading "ES4…
27 Oct 2005
Recap Too much travel and conference fun, too little blogging: I was invited to present a keynote at ACM ICFP 2005 in Tallinn, Estonia at the end of September. The very kind program comittee was unanimously interested in me as the ‘where the rubber meets the road’ speaker. I hope I delivered; I still have … Continue reading "Recap and…