The Future of JavaScript.
I'm a big fan of JavaScript. It's amazing how versatile it is. Just look at all the AJAX libs that have popped up (e.g. Atlas). It's good to see that there is some thought being put into keeping this great programming tool up to date.
Iterators and generics in .NET 2.0 has laid the foundation for things to come in C# 3.0 (LINQ). I'm kind of wondering if some of these JavaScript features could be built upon to add some LINQ like functionality to JavaScript.
The article points out that there are many similarities between ECMAScript and Python. Admittedly I'm not that familiar with Python. I guess it's time I got serious with IronPython.NET. After many years of doing corporate web development with Microsoft tools (VB,C#,JavaScript) I've started to miss those college days of developing with many different languages for different kinds of problem domains. Thanks to things like JavaScript, Cw, IronPython and C# 3/LINQ my interest in other programming languages is peaking again.
All this focus on programming languages lately has just reminded me that it is a great time to be a developer!
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants - Isaac Newton