Old Ajax hand Brent Ashley has broken what I can only hope was a self imposed silence today with Javascript - the Web 2.0 developer?s Babelfish. I must say I agree with Brent’s “unformed” idea: some of today’s popular JavaScript libraries try to make JS “feel” more like a different language. I make this point when I talk about Ajax or when people quiz me about which library is perfect for them - if Ruby makes your skin crawl, chances are you won’t like Prototype and many of the Java guys I know adore GWT since it allows them to stay in their comfort zone.
As much as I agree with his post, never forget that JavaScript is JavaScript - a perfectly fine language thank you very much. It’s natural to make analogies but those can be dangerous 
