Trying To Bust JavaScript Out of the Browser

eldavojohn writes "If you think JavaScript is a crime against humanity, you might want to skip this article, because Ars is reporting on efforts to take JavaScript to the next level. With the new ECMAScript 5 draft proposal, the article points out a lot of positive things that have happened in the world of JavaScript. The article does a good job of citing some of the major problems with JavaScript and how a reborn library called CommonJS (formerly ServerJS) is addressing each of those problems. No one can deny JavaScript's usefulness on the front end of the web, but if you're a developer do you support the efforts to move it beyond that?"pa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/12/01/1548221/Trying-To-Bust-JavaScript-Out-of-the-Browser?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/12/01/1548221"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/12/01/1548221/Trying-To-Bust-JavaScript-Out-of-the-Browser?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-HFehwxxsnPhvDLNymG7hQUw-DY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-HFehwxxsnPhvDLNymG7hQUw-DY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-HFehwxxsnPhvDLNymG7hQUw-DY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/-HFehwxxsnPhvDLNymG7hQUw-DY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/w8pJ2w73_6g" height="1" width="1"/

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