Batu69 Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 Edge leading the crusade for better Web standards? I don't believe it! I guess this is the new Microsoft. ECMAScript 7, better known as JavaScript 2016, the next iteration of the JavaScript programming language scheduled to be released next year, even if quite raw at the moment, has started being added to various browsers. As usual, the charge is being led by Chrome and Firefox, but apparently, the new guy on the block, Edge, is steadily keeping pace with the old dogs. The announcement came on the Microsoft Developer Network from David Catuhe, Principal Program Manager for HTML5 and Open Web Standards. One of the first ES7 features Microsoft will be adding to Edge is async/await functions, an evolution from the old JavaScript callbacks and promises model (officially added in ES6). This is a feature the company has been pushing with the JavaScript community for a while now, mainly because it's rooted in the async/await functions that existed in the company's C# programming language for years. While usually any Web-related news involved IE, the community has been used to scoffing at Microsoft's updates. Not this time, though. Reception for this news has been great from many JS developers, most of them seeing async/await functions as a much-needed evolution that will make JavaScript code less complicated to write, one of the language's biggest disadvantages. Support for async/await functions has been added to Edge starting with Windows Insider Preview Build 10532+. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalju Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 The only right thing, what Microsoft has decided to make the last 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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