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Ramification

So what does this all mean? It means that JavaScript is no longer confined by previously-challenging resource of processing power. With this improvement it’s leap-frogged any sort of traditional and has gone head-to-head with computationally-powerful languages like C.

I fully expect to see more, massive, projects being written in JavaScript. Projects that expect the performance gains that we’re starting to see. Applications that are number-heavy (like image manipulation) or object-heavy (like relational object structures).

One area that I’m especially excited about is in relation to Canvas. The primary thing holding back most extensive Canvas development hasn’t been rendering – but the processor limitations of the language (performing the challenging mathematical operations related to vectors, matrices, or collision detection). I expect this area to absolutely explode after the release of Firefox 3.1 as we start to see this work take hold.

Seeing releases like this are absolutely exciting for me. JavaScript is absolutely the little-language-that-could – continually routing around any of its short-comings and blowing away all of its expectations. I look forward to using it for many, many, years to come.