JavaScript is crying out for a way to write functions more tersely. I’ve added my suggestion to the debate, and was vaguely aware that Mozilla had implemented “function expressions”. It wasn’t until I saw their use in the (excellent) ProtoVis examples that I realized how stomach-churningly bad the syntax for them is. Instead of dropping [...]
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What’s All This Then?
I'm Alex Russell, a web developer working on Chrome, Chrome for Android, Chrome Frame, and the broader web platform at Google London. I'm guilty of many JavaScript transgressions. Through the Chrome team I serve in various standards-facing capacities, most-directly as a Google representative to ECMA TC39 (the standards body for JavaScript).
My goal is to make the web suck less and to the extent that I can keep politics and economics from creeping in, that's what this blog is about.
Other facets available upon HTTP request: twitter, facebook, flickr, and quora. Expect much less self-restraint there.
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