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jswrap (C++ love for Spidermonkey)

A couple of years ago I started and then abandoned a project that implemented what I thought then were a couple of cute ideas to do with using boost (the outstanding C++ libraries found at boost.org) to automatically generate wrappers for C++ objects to be used in Spidermonkey. I’ve shared pieces of the code [...]

extend this!

I’ve been working on something fun for the last couple of days (in between patch-revs on other bugs I can’t talk about yet), and I thought I’d blog about it. It’s cool (at least to me) and useful:
John Resig and others involved in the standardization process for the new ECMAScript language proposals have been [...]

Evolving from the JavaScript of today to the JavaScript of tomorrow (ES3 -> ES4)

Lars Hansen of Adobe has written a really great tutorial for ES4 that describes the evolution of a library project written in JS using current technologies, as it incrementally incorporates features of the new language to simplify and improve the code for readability, integrity and performance.
That sounds like a lot of weasel-words. [...]