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I think it's more or less obvious that languages and platforms ran by a benevolent dictatorship can move much faster than one ran by a committee of several different groups and companies.

This is especially true of JavaScript, where maintaining backwards compatibility is really important [1] -- you have to avoid doing something you can't change later.

They also tend to wait until there's a few implementations of any proposal already. It has to be tested first, before becoming standard.

[1] http://www.2ality.com/2014/12/one-javascript.html




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