Brendan Eich on JavaScript at 17 – O’Reilly Fluent 2012




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”

  1. 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!

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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