On Oct 4, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Juan Ignacio Dopazo wrote:

> Yes, tools should be better, but they need to start becoming better by 
> themselves as previous discussions here have noted.
> 
> However, there are problems in the language that need to be addressed by both 
> syntax and APIs. We need:
> 
> - A sane way of dealing with equality, identity and basically a lot of what's 
> in http://wtfjs.com/

Some of that is due to implicit conversions, not any equality-ish operator.


> - Ways of isolating code from the global scope

Covered by modules and module loaders.


> - Tools for avoiding XSS

That's a cross-cutting problem, not just core language. So, yes, tools but no 
silver bullets. ES5 has some tools, ES6 has more.


> There was talk about an "is" or "eq" operator to fix equality, but it seems 
> it got demoted or interest was lost.

Wrong: wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:egal

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