JavaScript

5 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Marc Andreessen · said 49 times in 24 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019
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Andreessen: Cross-site scripting was unknown when Netscape invented JavaScript in 1995
“When we invented JavaScript at Netscape in 1995, the concept of cross-site scripting was a complete unknown.”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:18 a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Disclosure
Collison: Stripe uses browser JavaScript signals to detect fraud better than banks
“When we're looking at blocking fraud, we're doing stuff like, you know, looking at the, you know, we have JavaScript running on the end customer's web browser, and so we can tell a lot more about the veracity and is this customer who they claim to be than your…”
John Collison Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:35 a16z Podcast | The Evolution of Payments
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Front-End Developers Are Replacing Monolithic Backend Development via Microservices
“We used to have this very clear distinction between the back-end developers and then front-end developers that worked with the web were barely really developers. They would mostly take some design file and then cut it up and hand it over to a back-end develope…”
Matt Biilmann Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:05 a16z Podcast | Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps
Feb 6, 2025 positive
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Sinofsky: DeepSeek's efficiency leap is AI's JavaScript moment
“And it's, to me, this is all the equivalent of the browser getting JavaScript. Because once the browser got JavaScript, then all of a sudden you could do anything you needed without going to some standards body or building your own browser.”
Steven Sinofsky Feb 6, 2025 ▶ 29:06 What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
Mar 7, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Casado: Most startups today build natively in JavaScript or TypeScript
“I will tell you now as an investor, if a company comes in the door and they're building a product, it's almost certainly going to be, you know, built natively for the web using JavaScript and TypeScript. And like the majority of functionality is like some thir…”
Martin Casado Mar 7, 2025 ▶ 4:22 Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era
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