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Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160

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Brendan Eich discusses the creation of JavaScript, the history of Netscape and Mozilla, the browser wars, and privacy-focused web browsers.

Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla and Brave. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - The Jordan Harbinger Show: jordanharbinger.com/lex/ - Sun Basket: sunbasket.com/lex and use code LEX to get $35 off - BetterHelp: betterhelp.com/lex to get 10% off - Eight Sleep: eightsleep.com/lex and use code LEX to get special savings EPISODE LINKS: Brendan's Twitter: twitter.com/BrendanEich Brendan's Website: brendaneich.com Brave browser: brave.com PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5vLJaVnHrT6uWrgZdRaAkO RSS: lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: - Introduction - History of early programming languages - Physics needs more experiments and less theory - JavaScript origin story - JavaScript was created in 10 days - Marc Andreessen - Internet Explorer - Evolution of JavaScript - Javascript standardization - TypeScript - JavaScript ecosystem - HTML5 - Making JavaScript fast - JavaScript is the most popular language in the world - Advice for programmers - Browser wars - Firefox - Brave - Basic Attention Token - California - Mortality - Legacy SOCIAL: - Twitter: twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: facebook.com/LexFridmanPage - Instagram: instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: medium.com/@lexfridman - Reddit: reddit.com/r/lexfridman - Support on Patreon: patreon.com/lexfridman

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6 people recommend this

What people say. Recommended for its fascinating historical insights into the rapid creation of JavaScript, the early browser wars, and the evolution of web privacy.

sridon Lobsters • Recommends

Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave
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michaelsbradleyon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Brave Search beta”

Lex Fridman interviewed Brendan Eich earlier this year (a real gem of an interview, in my opinion). I found all of it interesting, but here's a timecode link where they begin to discuss the current era of "browser wars", technical aspects and history of privacy protections, ads, search, and how that's all related. link to this video
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jcimson Hacker News • Recommends

On “Faster JavaScript Calls”

Lex Fridman just did a great podcast episode with Brendan Eich, credited with creating JavaScript. Lots of great little tidbits of history in the conversation - link to this video
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onetomon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Choose Boring Technology (2015)”

Recommended "literature": 1. 10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl - JSConf EU ( link ) 2. Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160 ( link to this video )
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pmurt7on Hacker News • Recommends

On “Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling”

There was this wonderful podcast featuring Eich a few days ago: "Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave" link to this video
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hnrodeyon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995)”

If this is exciting for you then you'll love this podcast with Brendan Eich. Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla and Brave. link to this video
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BrendanEichon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]”

Hyatt anecdote at link to this video . The point is not about Silicon Valley, commercialization of the Web (although as Dorothy Denning observed, the pre-Web Academic Internet was a more secure world only because not many attackers yet), or academic pressure. WiB applies to biology. I have friends at a synth-bio startup, one tweeted humorously the other month about how bad a hack evolution is!
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jasodeon Hacker News • Mentions

On “The End of Applets”

…type of language like Java for more complex applications So, it wasn't an accident, or case of NIH Not Invented Here, or corporate bickering. What they didn't foresee in 1994 is that the non-professional Javascript would end up adding more (pro) features that it enabled it to eliminate the need for Java Applets. 1 deep link to B.E. explanation: link to this video…
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On “AskHN: How much is Chrome and how much is Chromium?”

similarly to your experience, I'm using Brave browser (based on chromium) since recently (after watching link to this video ), mostly attracted by the built-in adblocker
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BrendanEichon Hacker News • Mentions

On “How JavaScript Works: deep dive into call, apply, and bind”

Ten day Mocha had strict ==, so better in that regard. History is detailed at link to this video . Rather than assuming a too-simple version, check out the details for how things went down. Do-overs not possible, by better new forms over time helped. Honest q: Do you actually use modern JS at all?
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EMRZon Hacker News • Mentions

On ““I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)”

It was the battle for "the web" and the sun+netscape partnership was an actual menace to microsoft's activex and vbscript things. There is an espisode the Lex Fridman podcast with Brendan Eich where he talks a little about that specific time.1 The "panic" was right imo (only in that specific area) i mean, there is almost 0 microsoft on the web today. 1: link to this video
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BrendanEichon Hacker News • Mentions

On “The influence of Self”

Scope in early JS was handled through a parent slot. Self was a big influence but I had no time to honor it properly. JS had ten days till a demo to prove to factions in Netscape and to most of Sun (Bill Joy was ally) that it had a role to play. See link to this video (earlier if you have time).
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