The creator of JavaScript, Brendan H, posted an interesting
letter in the newsletter about the future ECMAScript-262 specification after the Oslo meeting. The discussion was attended by representatives of Adobe, Google & MicroSoft, who have their own implementations of this standard (JavaScript, ActionScript, Rhino, JScript.NET).
The developers decided to concentrate on version 3.1 and abandon a number of features that were originally intended to be added to ES4: packages, namespaces & early binding. The question is now also put classes that can be simplified to lambda-coding + Object.freeze.
ES 4 is dead, long live ES 3.1! AS 3 is now his own master.