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pygy_ on June 5, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Was Wrong About TypeScript

Did you know that Microsoft was part of the cabal against ES4, proposing a competing and very modest ES3.1 which became ES5?

int_19h on June 6, 2016 [–]

MS was on both sides of it. Remember JS.NET? It was veey ES4'ish (for early definitions of ES4, anyway).

pygy_ on June 6, 2016 | [–]

No, I didn't know about it...

Still, the hostility from the "against" side (which also included Yahoo and a pre-Chrome Google) was enough to derail the effort.

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