Good news, everyone! 

Recently we have been puzzled by some statements of Brendan Eich, the creator of the JavaScript programming language.

In Brendan's blog he wrote "For Mozilla 2, we will have a JIT-oriented JavaScript VM (details soon) that supports the forthcoming ECMAScript Edition 4 ("JS2") language" (October 13, 2006). Well, could hardly wait for any details. Another statement that made us curious was at The Ajax Experience this fall. In his slides about JavaScript 2.0 he mentioned  "Open source optimizing VMs coming soon. Look for an announcement in a few weeks" (October 25, 2006). Interestingly, this mysterious announcement was in a section he called "JavaScript Fun Facts".

Well done Brendan, you are our Master of Suspense! Finally, as a revelation today came the announcement that is going to boost JavaScript. Congratulations to Adobe for their decision of contributing the ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM) as open source to the Mozilla project. And a warm open-source welcome to all the developers of the AVM! The code has just been committed into the Mozilla repository.

This is great news for qooxdoo being a client-side JavaScript framework. Performance has always been one of our major concerns, and we think we have pushed the limit for JavaScript based web applications, e.g. for qooxdoo's powerful browser-independent layout engine. Can't wait to tweak the last bit of performance out of any new Mozilla browser backed by the new JavaScript VM. This is going to change the future of browser-based applications. Cheers!