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#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave
Lex Fridman Podcast
JavaScript Will Take Over Computing
JS is increasingly being used for back-end, like running stuff that's behind the scenes. It's also starting to be used quite a bit for things like TensorFlow.js. Is it possible in 10, 20, 30 years that basically most of the world runs in JavaScript? This is a dystopian nightmare to some people. But I mentioned software for isolation. The call into the kernel is expensive. And so Gary took this idea and said, JavaScript will take over computing because the system call boundaries too expensive. He did what JS, and then he did this life and death of JavaScript.
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