Presentation: Tweet"JavaScript Today and Tomorrow: Evolving the Ambient Language of the Ambient Computing Era"

As we leave the personal computing era and rapidly enter the era of ambient computing, JavaScript's position as the dominant programming language is becoming increasingly apparent. JavaScript isn't just a language for directly writing web applications, it is also rapidly becoming the virtual machine and compilation target for every other languages that needs to supports the ambient web application platform. In this talk I'll take a look at the current status of JavaScript from both these perspectives and examine some of its strengths and weakness. I'll explain how JavaScript implementers work together to ensure interoperable implementations. I'll also explain how the JavaScript standardization process works to introduce new features into the JavaScript language and what changes we can reasonably expect to see in the future.