Simon Willison’s Weblog

ECMAScript Harmony. John Resig explains the outcome of the recent “Oslo meeting” where proponents of ECMAScript 3.1 (incremental improvements to JS as it exists today) and 4 (massive, sweeping changes including many new programming constructs) harmonised their differences. The combined effort is closer to 3.1 than it is to 4, which I think is the right decision. 14th August 2008, 9:37 am

The Story Behind ES4. If you’re scratching your head at the recent eruption of acrimony surrounding ECMAScript 4 (the next standardised version of JavaScript) Neil Mix has a relatively easy to follow catch-up post. 2nd November 2007, 6:15 am

J4P5: Javascript For PHP 5 (via) “J4P5 is a JavaScript interpreter written in PHP 5, that allows to run untrusted scripts in a sandbox on your server. It aims to implement most of Ecma-262 3rd edition.” 12th July 2007, 10:24 pm

ECMAScript 4 Reference Implementation. Including discussion of the benefits of writing it in Standard ML. 10th June 2007, 12:49 pm