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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-
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 · 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.
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...
Jul 23, 2019 · That was 34-year-old Netscape employee Brendan Eich, who chained himself to his desk for 10 days. At the end of those 10 days in 1995, he delivered JavaScript. Eich's efforts to deliver value to his company also sound like a fulfillment of his passion to write a widely used programming language.
Feb 1, 2012 · The featured Web extra is a video interview with Mozilla's Chief Technology Officer (and JavaScript's creator), Brendan Eich.
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"Mocha" was the code name of the first JavaScript engine, originally written by Brendan Eich in his 10-day May 1995 sprint. For all of 1995 and most of 1996, Eich was the the only Netscape developer working full-time on the JavaScript engine.
