Computing Conversations with Brendan Eich

Computer's multimedia editor Charles Severance speaks with Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich about how the latter created JavaScript in 1995. As HTML5 emerges, it's entirely possible that JavaScript will soon become a dominant programming language for both mobile and desktop applications, which is impressive for a language Eich developed in 10 days nearly 20 years ago. From Computer's February 2012 issue: opac.ieeecomput...
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[@khalidelgazzar]

Great interview, thank you Brandon Eich and thank you Dr Chuck,!

[@stevenwatson2927]

"It needs to be designed in 10 days. It has to look like Java but, it can't compete with it."

[@vedranmaricevic6760]

He is Beast :)

[@nuhsjus3458]

amazing guy best browser

[@ForwardNewsToday]

He’s creating a global internet revolution with the Brave Network and Basic Attention Token

[@teenytinytoons]

Brave is like the most secure browser right now.

[@teenytinytoons]

he has adhd. i can tell by the way that he gets super excited to respond so he tends to cut the interviewer off, he can't really stop moving, and he talks really fast too. adhd people tend to be very bright. i have adhd but am an outlier. lol.

[@ililiilili3366]

so this is the guy.... long live the king.....currently learning the monster you created and i hate it!!! "jokes"

[@bensonchen6237]

6:35

[@ivenbao4400]

所以javascript为什么会变成今天这样统治web界，实在是迷的不行

[@bryanyang1506]

偶像啊~

[@jayarudran3276]

T.A 😊😊😊

[@Dagarar]

A chad

[@MichaelPohoreski]

Javascript: The new "Basic" of the millennium with all the crap along with it unless you use the hack: "use strict"; Javascript: 10 days for the designer, 20 years of frustration for developers

[@tn5346]

Haha :) Well, whatever your feelings about javascript, Eich is incredibly sharp and articulate. I really like listening to him talk, either on KZbin or podcasts. He gives a lot of insight into the world of browsers and his involvement with them, from the early days of Mosaic and the context in which he created JS at Netscape to today's Brave browser, basic attention tokens, ad tech, etc. A wealth of information

[@MichaelPohoreski]

@@tn5346 As a language designer he is a fucking moron.

[@tn5346]

@@MichaelPohoreski What's not to like about a gigantic callback function smashed into the tiny spot where a parameter name is supposed to be? Still, when he made it web pages were more or less static. That it's become as important as it is, that's the work of satan.

[@Mogwai88]

@@MichaelPohoreski It's not common to see someone reply to a comment from 6 years ago and then get a reply from the original poster. How does it feel looking back on your comments from so long ago? I always cringe when I come across mine..

[@MichaelPohoreski]

@@Mogwai88 Some age well, some don't. "JavaSchit" is _slowly_ getting better. It is still a toy language but for prototyping it can be easy to throw something together.

[@colinlu4158]

嗯哼，据说ECMA标准是这个家伙用了10天赶工出来的？

[@hypermoss]

如果你觉得老板 10 天要你们上线一个 App 是一个丧心病狂的事情，那么可以多想想这位哥。 当然，码农和大神的区别在于：遇到这种事情，10 天以后码农死掉了，而大神成功了。 只是但凡这种极速上线的事情，都会留下一堆的坑，大神和码农的的区别，也就是水洼和天坑的区别。

[@YT-tx9ov]

homophobe

[@Mogwai88]

Excuse me?