Summary
JavaScript is one of the pillars of the Web. Now that the arrival of AJAX is shaking the foundation of the Web, what about JavaScript? Is JavaScript going to change in the near future?
For years, the JavaScript language has remained very stable, and this stability created the environmental conditions for AJAX to flourish and thrive. AJAX means more and more code hosted and running within the client browser. This code can only be written in JavaScript.
The perception of a language is different when you have only a few lines of code to write as opposed to when you have to use it to write large sections of the application. For this more exacting job, JavaScript seems more inadequate every day. And JavaScript 2.0 is slowly but steadily emerging. ...
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