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#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave
Lex Fridman Podcast
What's the Most Proud of About JavaScript?
The first class functions shines. I think especially since Java didn't have it and it was somewhat unusual. The scheme made it in somehow at the end of the day. In spirit, people complain because scheme has minimalism. It has six or seven special forms. It has hygienic macros. And JavaScript is kind of a multi-paradigm or shembal like. But he still saw value in JavaScript. He even thought, what if we got my friend Cape Hickman who'd been at Netscape from the beginning and who was a kernel hacker at SGI when I joined? So once we could bootstrap into Kips VM, we wouldn’t need Sun
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