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.
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