We all know there are faults to be found but I, for one, am very, very happy about JavaScript integration. I remember sitting in the sneak at the last UCON (1999? 2000? -- I think it was circa D6 because I was doing a lecture/workshop introducing behaviors) when an enthusiastic Director engineer showed the use of JavaScript within Director. Excited, I felt like I was the only one in a packed audience that even gave a damn. I was so surprised and the engineer doing the demo was visibly crushed. (I can't recall who it was.) So, I hereby express my gratitude, on behalf of myself and many future students, that the ability exists to translate skills/experience from other JavaScript efforts into learning Director.
I was in the audience too, and I guess you have to remember that Flash wasn't as Javascript like at the time, and everyone in the world was being told at the time that all other languages were about to die because everybody should be using Java. I still got the impression that many in the audience were excited about the idea, many others were only intrigued because at least the language being shown started with the right four letters, if you still wanted to be employable in a few months. For people like me it would have been as exciting to see Swahili as an alternative to Lingo.
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