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> I think it's a bit annoying -- to the point of being disrespectful -- that Brendan doesn't mention V8 in his history of JavaScript.

Chill. It's a timeline of language evolution - I don't see how V8 is relevant. Mentioning the AJAX revolution isn't strictly relevant either, but serves the purpose of separating orthodox from next-gen Javascript.

Btw, while work on V8 started 2 years before work on TraceMonkey, apparently the latter was announced first.




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