To Infinity AND BEYOND (with JavaScript)

The past and future of JavaScript.

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1. An incomplete exposition into the exciting past and future life of JavaScript. To Infinity AND BEYOND (with JavaScript)
2. Ages of JavaScript 1994 Pre-JavaScript
3. Ages of JavaScript 1994-1996 Birth & Adoption
4. Ages of JavaScript 1999 Ajax rises (but wasn't called Ajax)
5. Ages of JavaScript 2004-2008 Blast Off
6. Ages of JavaScript 2009 and BEYOND
7. So, in the future what will your choices be? Perhaps: jQuery, Ember, BackBone, YUI, Ext.JS, Angular, Dojo, midori, MochiKit, Prototype.js, MooTools, Derby, Express, Meteor, FlatIron, TowerJS... and so many more!
8. YES, but still NOPE NOPE
9. I know this sounds like heresy, but here's why... JavaScript will not be the language we all write in 10 years!
10. JavaScript is shifting to become the compile-to language, with innovations in other languages rapidly outpacing current JavaScript engines.
11. It's literally [figuratively] running everywhere! Phones run JavaScript! Fridges run JavaScript! Cars run JavaScript! Game consoles run JavaScript! Desktop applications! Servers! Clients! Databases! ZOMG! JavaScript is ubiquitous. JAVASCRIPT ALL THE THINGS!!!11!one
12. ( not Visual Basic ) The Ultimate Question Then Becomes: What language do you want to use?
13. Ruby to JavaScript CoffeeScript Loosey Goosey! https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script
14. CoffeeScript http://coffeescript.org/
15. ScriptSharp (Script#) Sharp And Stricty! https://github.com/nikhilk/scriptsharp C# to JavaScript
16. C# https://gist.github.com/4544400
17. ClojureScript Functional Fantasticness! https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript Clojure to JavaScript
18. ClojureScript http://clojurescriptone.com/
19. Dart Darty Dashy Web-A-GoGo! http://www.dartlang.org/ Dart to JavaScript
20. Dart https://github.com/dart-lang/dart-html5-samples/
21. Seriously guys. Seriously. Any current, sufficiently popular programming language will ultimately have a JavaScript compiler created for it.
22. For reals guys. For reals. And any new language created will have JavaScript as a default compile target.
23. This means the choices we in this room RIGHT NOW have, are exponentially increasing far beyond simply which library to use or what string concat function to call.
24. YES YOU ARE AND YOU LOVE IT. Excited?
25. The End thanks! @barnabyclaydon ...and they lived happily ever after.