Almost two decades after the birth of JavaScript, its creator gives a whirlwind history of the language with stories (and dirt!) dished out from each era. What worked well for JavaScript and what has continued to make developers groan? What’s coming in ES6 and where next for the JavaScript community? Answers to these questions and more from as authoritative a source as it gets.
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Brendan is responsible for architecture and the technical direction of Mozilla. He is charged with authorizing module owners, owning architectural issues of the source base and writing the roadmap that outlines the direction of the Mozilla project.
Brendan created JavaScript, did the work through Navigator 4.0, and helped carry it through international standardization. Before Netscape, he wrote operating system and network code for SGI; and at MicroUnity, wrote micro-kernel and DSP code, and did the first MIPS R4K port of gcc, the GNU C compiler.
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22 responses to “Brendan Eich on JavaScript at 17 – O’Reilly Fluent 2012”
I can't wait for WebAssembly to become mainstream so we can all forget that JS happened.
im programming with javscript while listening to this.
I am not native English speaker, sorry if I got it wrong. 16:15 is not Brendan said goto supported by Opera? Thanks!
So! I know who is the criminal mind giving us all the web pain! JavaScript is great but I don't like the monopoly it has formed.
Pleaaeeseee Give us a JavaScrip VM instead of a language!
Back in 2005 I was twenty five and not giving a fuck about javascript. Somethings never change.
Back in 2005 I was thirteen I was reading a bout about JavaScript I learned so much how the language can be turned into a computer programming language as I believe it should be turned into. Now I have created an operational system from C++, Java applications, and finally manage to turn .JS into a programming language. However, the problem is its not recognize by computers today because computer companies are assholes.
Brendan Eich is my hero.
alot, every virus with name JS.agent and js extension brobably javascript Viruses
How many javascript viruses do you know?!
Heh when I was 17 (back in 2005) we were taught Javascript in IPT and our final project was to make a game in it. I remember thinking back then "This is silly, javascript is used for popups and alerts on the web, no good games will ever be made in it".
Now 7 years later here I am developing games in Javascript, oh how things change.
thx to this guy soo many viruses exist now :D:D:D:D
Awesome presentation. I love how he uses a nightly build to run his slides and demos. A bold move. 🙂
Thx 🙂 for the help.
reveal.js
What is the presentation framework used to show the slides ?
Amazing presentation. Brendan is a fountain of information.
It is like comparing the great acceptance of IE a while ago while it was the only browser bundled with Windows, the most used OS. It was by no means a great way to compare the user's browser preference…
Not exactly. Matz as well as most language designers and implementers were competing with several other languages so their merits are totally different than from a language that competes with no other since the browsers decided to only implement JavaScript.
Also, now that JavaScript can be also used in the server side, and there are people out there writing Node.js applications, you can compare how much acceptance JS has when you have other language choices available for the server side.
For instance, I'm using CoffeeScript because my only option is to use a language that can compile to JS… But I'd certainly prefer to write Ruby in my client-side programming as well. Or even Python or Groovy.
This is not a fair comparison. It would be if all major browsers provided any alternative language for client-side programming.
C is quite a bit older yet, and still widely used. My talk didn't say JS was unique in this regard, though. I just asked if anyone still had something they created in a bit rush that long ago that's still in wide (and growing) use.
PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, Linux, Windows, Vim, and much of what I still use or see used today, was around 17 years ago…