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

Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla and Brave. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00)– Introduction
(06:54)– History of early programming languages
(11:47)– Physics needs more experiments and less theory
(16:24)– JavaScript origin story
(41:17)– JavaScript was created in 10 days
(50:57)– Marc Andreessen
(54:14)– Internet Explorer
(57:58)– Evolution of JavaScript
(1:03:44)– JavaScript standardization
(1:09:33)– TypeScript
(1:12:05)– JavaScript ecosystem
(1:15:15)– HTML5
(1:18:47)– Making JavaScript fast
(1:27:57)– JavaScript is the most popular language in the world
(1:38:23)– Advice for programmers
(1:44:20)– Browser wars
(1:50:50)– Firefox
(2:12:33)– Brave
(2:25:33)– Basic Attention Token
(2:50:36)– California
(2:59:48)– Mortality
(3:00:54)– Legacy