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JavaScript: Designing a Language in 10 Days W hen Netscape hired Brendan Eich in April 1995, he was told that he had 10 days to create and produce a working prototype of a programming language that would run in Netscape’s browser. Back then, the pace of Web innovation was furi-ous, with Microsoft suddenly making the Internet the focus of its Win-
Jun 12, 2020 · How a sidekick scripting language for Java, created at Netscape in a ten-day hack, ships first as a de facto Web standard and eventually becomes the world’s most widely used programming language. This paper tells the story of the creation, design, evolution, and standardization of the JavaScript language over the period of 1995-2015.
Aug 26, 2018 · So famously, 34-year-old Brendan Eich created that first version of the language that would become JavaScript in just 10 days. (Last year Eich began a talk at the dotJS conference by saying “22 years ago in May I did 10 days of hard work,” adding “I didn’t sleep much.”)
Jul 1, 2020 · 77:4 Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich extensions. This created a huge legacy of unmaintained JavaScript-dependent Web pages and revealed new interoperability issues. Web developers began to create complex client-side JavaScript Web applications and were asking for standardized language enhancements to support them.
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Feb 1, 2012 · The featured Web extra is a video interview with Mozilla's Chief Technology Officer (and JavaScript's creator), Brendan Eich.
Sep 17, 2024 · It’s hard to imagine that one of the most widely used programming languages, JavaScript, was created in just 10 days. Amazingly, this is what Brendan Eich accomplished in the backdrop of...
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[0:00:00.0] JM: Brendan Eich created the first version of JavaScript in 10 days. Since then, JavaScript has evolved, and Brendan has watched the growth of the web give rise to new and unexpected use cases. Today, Brendan Eich is still pushing the web forward across the