JavaScript getting faster, could displace Flash

JavaScript, the now-ubiquitous scripting language popular in client-side Web development, has gotten faster and could find itself being used instead of Adobe Flash technology, according to Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript. "The browser vendors are making super-fast implementations of it, so JavaScript's gotten very, very fast, and this is helping developers use it more," Eich said when asked what he sees in the future for JavaScript. "It's being used for 3D graphics programming now."

"My prediction is we'll see even more JavaScript. We'll see 3D games being written, innovations that we haven't even conceived of yet," he said. Activities now done in Flash would be done in the browser via JavaScript, Eich said. Such enhancements to JavaScript would "take over" if Microsoft decides to support them in its Internet Explorer browser or if such support could be added to Internet Explorer through other means, according to Eich, who is a leader of the Mozilla Foundation.

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Darn IEs and their limitations, they better upgrade their browsers.