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Last Monday I was in Paris for DotJS, organized by Sylvain Zimmer and dotConferences, arguably the biggest JavaScript conference in Europe, with more than 900 JavaScript “savants”.

My talk was titled “Growing a Language for Graphics”, which was about JavaScript as seen from the eyes of a data visualization / graphics person. By having a look at GLSL - a domain specific language (DSL) for graphics used in WebGL - I talk about what language features would help graphic developers on the Web and I show the long history of trying to standardize operator overloading into JavaScript.

I’ve been wanting to a give a talk about this topic for a long time, having witnessed most of the discussions around operator overloading in JavaScript and it’s different proposals since early 2007. Going from generic functions to a double-dispatch approach to multimethods, to value proxies and finally value objects, I must say that my interest in having this feature into JavaScript never faded.

My talk is inpired on a great talk by Guy Steele Jr. titled “Growing a Language” and that I definitely recommend you to watch:

In case you’re interested in knowing more about operator overloading proposals in JavaScript I’m pasting a dump of the bibliography here:

Why operator overloading

http://www.jroller.com/cpurdy/entry/the_seven_habits_of_highly1

ES4 overview

http://www.ecmascript.org/es4/spec/overview.pdf

Generic functions

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2007-November/005043.html

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2007-November/005049.html

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2007-November/005052.html

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2007-November/005053.html

2009 Operator Overloading proposal

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2009-January/008535.html

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2009-January/008541.html

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:operator_overloading_with_double_dispatch

ExtendScript OO

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/646268

http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2010/05/operator-overloading-with-extendscript

Operator Overloading revisited

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2009-June/009603.html

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2009-June/009604.html

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2009-June/

Value types

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:value_types

Decimal type:

http://intertwingly.net/stories/2008/09/20/estest.html

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2009-January/008646.html

Value types page started:

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2010-January/010677.html

Value objects

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:value_objects

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-March/021411.html

http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/value-objects

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749786

Value proxies

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:value_proxies

ES next

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2013-April/029949.html

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