JavaScript:Home Page

JavaScript language and implementation plans go here. For background, see:

• JS items in Brendan's roadmap blog.
• The Mozilla JS language page.
• The ECMAScript (ES) language site.
• JS pages at the Mozilla Developer Center (MDC).
• Rhino documentation at MDC. Rhino is an implementation of JavaScript in Java.

New Projects

• TraceMonkey, the addition of native-code compilation to SpiderMonkey
• Tamarin, the new virtual machine for ES4/JS2 that's already in Flash.
• ActionMonkey, the integration of Tamarin and SpiderMonkey for Mozilla 2.
• A new SpiderMonkey API for building and inspecting parse trees.
• Make mostly-dense arrays blazingly fast.
• Expose ECMA 262 Regular Expression API to C/C++ clients.
• JS3 Requirements, or what lies beyond JS2/ES4.

Older Projects/Ideas

• Narcissus (source code).
• Context-thread the SpiderMonkey interpreter.

Coding Style Guidelines

• SpiderMonkey
• How to write unit tests for use by jsDriver.pl.

References

• "Garbage Collection: algorithms for automatic dynamic memory management", by Richard Jones, is a comprehensive reference book about different garbage collection algorithms.
• Also Richard Jones's webpage has a collection of references.
• Several conferences where most memory management papers go: ISMM, PLDI, OOPSLA, VEE.