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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.”)
Jun 12, 2020 · JavaScript: The First 20 Years. 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.
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.
- Allen Wirfs-Brock, Brendan Eich
- 2020
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-
Sep 17, 2024 · 11 hours ago. 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 post explores whether JavaScript was indeed created in 10 days and its impact on the language. While the first version, "Mocha," was developed in ten days in May 1995 by Brendan Eich, it was a minimal prototype for internal demonstration.
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Jun 15, 2020 · A newly published paper by Brendan Eich, CEO of Chromium-based browser Brave and the key designer of JavaScript, looks back at two decades of the definitive programming language for the web,...