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• Brendan Eich tells how to prevent JavaScript memory leaks

  The JavaScript founder details where developers can go wrong and the straightforward methods to stay on track

• CoffeeScript brewing as variation on JavaScript

  CoffeeScript, billed by its creator as "unfancy JavaScript," is in development as a language that compiles into JavaScript but offers a different sense of style.

• Developers rest easier with JavaScript reversal

  The programmers in the trenches of Web development can breathe a bit easier now that a major committee planning the future of the JavaScript standard has decided to focus on small, incremental changes that will improve the performance in Web browsers. Some members of the ECMA International standards committee still have bigger dreams to enhance the language, known more formally as ECMAScript, to tackle more complicated projects, but these plans receded as the group focused on clearer and more present needs.