“I think that the next 18 months we’re going to see a 100 to 1,000 fold speed increase in JavaScript as Google and the guys at Mozilla are going to kick us all in the arse and make our JavaScript jittered,” Microsoft senior program manager Scott Hanselman told the audience, days after Google released its Chrome browser, which features faster JavaScript technology.
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“It’s going to be hard to tell if it’s going to be Silverlight or JavaScript we’re going to use for our applications,” he said. “I think in the end JavaScript is going to be a bigger competitor to Silverlight than Flash is.”
Hell yes, we’re making the web kick ass.
And i think that in the next 24 months you ain’t gonna see Windows pretty much anywhere.
Please note that Hanselman is not the typical Microsoft exec. He is very honest abouat the tecnologies he uses and he is a very smart guy overall. His blog is at http://www.hanselman.com/blog , and it’s definitely worth checking out.
Those open-minded people could save Microsoft in the long run, sometime down the road when they have to think about making money again
Er, no. Javascript makes the web worse. java, javascript, flash, silverlight on the web = FAIL.
Ok the javascript now it runs fast and it will run faster.
I’m sure Google services will work great on Chrome.
But what about the Adobe and Microsoft development tools for flash and siliverlight? How do you compete with them?
Crazy quote:
“Harry Pierson, Microsoft program Manager, answered that he thought ‘JavaScript is a very odd language for most developers’.”
Might be odd, unless you don’t care about the web, which Microsoft would prefer not to.
Awesome…just awesome!
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