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#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave
Lex Fridman Podcast
JavaScript and JavaScript onClick
JavaScript in the browser would not have the luxury of being concurrent. Java was going to run a plug-in, so it could fork threads and go to town. The main action in the browser was in the single threaded process on Unix or Windows. And that is one of the reasons I think JavaScript survived and Java kind of died.
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