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

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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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