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

Published: Feb. 12, 2021, 2:06 p.m.

Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla and Brave. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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\nOUTLINE:
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\n(00:00) - Introduction
\n(06:54) - History of early programming languages
\n(11:47) - Physics needs more experiments and less theory
\n(16:24) - JavaScript origin story
\n(41:17) - JavaScript was created in 10 days
\n(50:57) - Marc Andreessen
\n(54:14) - Internet Explorer
\n(57:58) - Evolution of JavaScript
\n(1:03:44) - JavaScript standardization
\n(1:09:33) - TypeScript
\n(1:12:05) - JavaScript ecosystem
\n(1:15:15) - HTML5
\n(1:18:47) - Making JavaScript fast
\n(1:27:57) - JavaScript is the most popular language in the world
\n(1:38:23) - Advice for programmers
\n(1:44:20) - Browser wars
\n(1:50:50) - Firefox
\n(2:12:33) - Brave
\n(2:25:33) - Basic Attention Token
\n(2:50:36) - California
\n(2:59:48) - Mortality
\n(3:00:54) - Legacy