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#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave

#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave

Lex Fridman Podcast vor 5 Jahren

Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla and Brave. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - The Jordan Harbinger Show: https://jordanharbinger.com/lex/ - Sun Basket: https://sunbasket.

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Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript and co-founder of
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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(06:54) – History of early programming languages

(11:47) – Physics needs more experiments and less theory

(16:24) – JavaScript origin story

(41:17) – JavaScript was created in 10 days

(50:57) – Marc Andreessen

(54:14) – Internet Explorer

(57:58) – Evolution of JavaScript

(1:03:44) – JavaScript standardization

(1:09:33) – TypeScript

(1:12:05) – JavaScript ecosystem

(1:15:15) – HTML5

(1:18:47) – Making JavaScript fast

(1:27:57) – JavaScript is the most popular language in the
world

(1:38:23) – Advice for programmers

(1:44:20) – Browser wars

(1:50:50) – Firefox

(2:12:33) – Brave

(2:25:33) – Basic Attention Token

(2:50:36) – California

(2:59:48) – Mortality

(3:00:54) – Legacy