The Weird History of JavaScript




The history of JavaScript over the last 25 years. How did a simple scripting language for Netscape evolve into the world’s most widely used programming language? https://dev.to/codediodeio/the-weird-history-of-javascript-2bnb

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Sources:

ECMA https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262-arch.htm
WorldWideWeb https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html
Brendan Eich Talk https://thenewstack.io/brendan-eich-on-creating-javascript-in-10-days-and-what-hed-do-differently-today/

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27 responses to “The Weird History of JavaScript”

  1. I was able to learn js in about a couple of weeks. I had grown up on class based object oriented programming (Java, C#), but once I realized the javascript was object based (everything is already an object), things got easy. Then I learned typescript and angular and had a lot of fun.

    And then my company put me on an abominable project using an abominable platform. Pega.

  2. 8:33 not true. Event driven, yes. But it's still blocking. This becomes blatantly obvious and extremely painful once you start manipulating strings megabytes in size, or do massive mathematical permutations. In web server applications it actually freezes the entire web server, causing page timeouts.

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