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#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave
Lex Fridman Podcast
JavaScript V8
In the 90s, Netscape bought small talk language anamorphic. David Younger created self as a simpler sort of small talk language and made really fast just in time compiling VMs for them. Anamorphic got bought by Son and they did hotspot. Lars Bach was one of the young engineers from anamorphic who got acquired by Son. He picked my brains about JavaScript. In 2006 launch at Google's campus. And meanwhile, we knew this was happening. So we got our act together with TraceMonkey,. Our tracing jet at Mozilla. And Apple, I think, was also aware. And so they were doing their own jet. It had this prehistory going back to
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