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JavaScript: what could have been

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Talkat JSConf EU 2011 · 2011-10-01..10-02· [javascript]

speaker

name:Jared Wyles
github:jared-wyles

resources

video:https://youtu.be/FRtjnRnKCkE
slides:none on file

summary

Claim: if Microsoft had designed JavaScript in 1995 the language borrows C++ and Visual Basic traits and the ecosystem never evolves the same way. Evidence: slides and code comparisons show memory management using no garbage collection, feature detection via compile-time macros, event handling relying on C-style pointers and function pointers, and a jQuery port that leaks memory and forbids anonymous callbacks. Tool timeline: libev appears in 2000 so Node and its ecosystem (V8, Node, jQuery-driven libraries) would not emerge as they did.

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chapters (8)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 6:54Garbage Collection
  3. 9:45Macros
  4. 11:15Events
  5. 12:06Pointers
  6. 12:37Function Pointers
  7. 14:18Vba
  8. 16:31Memory Leak

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