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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Steve Jobs Says No Flash on the iPhone

Mozilla's Alolan Zakai and his team created AsmJS, a typed subset of JavaScript. The language is fast enough to make Unreal Engine run in 30 frames a second. It doesn't touch the garbage collector or call functions that come from C function or C++ code you're compiling. And it can type check your program - not only type check it, but compile it.

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