JavaScript Errors: An Exceptional History - Part II
Hello again! Welcome to the finalé of a two-part series of posts on errors in JavaScript. Last time, we took a look into the history of errors in JavaScript — how JavaScript shipped without runtime exceptions, how error handling mechanisms were later added both to the fledgeling web browsers of the day and to the ECMAScript spec, and how they future efforts to standardise these features would be connected to the politics of the browser wars of the late 90’s and 2000’s.