Over the recent years, JavaScript has grown up. Long gone are the glory days of “DHTML”; we are now in the age of “Ajax,” possibly even “HTML5.” Over the past years JavaScript gained some killer applications; it gained robust libraries to aid developers in cross-browser scripting; and it gained a host of tools such as debuggers, profilers, and unit testing frameworks. The community has worked tirelessly to bring in the tools they know and love from other languages to help give JavaScript a “real” development environment in which they can use the workflows and knowledge gained from working in other environments and focus on building quality applications.
