JavaScript, every mention
14 scenes (2022) · ← back to JavaScript
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where JavaScript comes up
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:14 Ben Gilbert He holds the credential of inventing JavaScript, a source of much joy and also much pain for many of you out there, and Brendan was the chief architect of Netscape and eventually became the CEO of Mozilla, the makers of Firefox.
- ▶ 5:31 Ben Gilbert Grew up using Firefox and the Mozilla browser before that, and Netscape before that, and God knows I use plenty of JavaScript every day in all facets of my life, so my life would not be what it is without your work over the years.
- ▶ 5:49 Brendan Eich Your JavaScript use keeps me in t-shirts.
- ▶ 9:12 Ben Gilbert But that is enabled because of the ecosystem that was built around JavaScript.
- ▶ 9:17 Ben Gilbert On the other side of things, the entire advertising and ad tracking and digital advertising ecosystem also is built on JavaScript, and so I think there's an unbelievable arc to everything that you've built over the years in deciding to…
- ▶ 11:40 Brendan Eich But JavaScript was the only bite at the Apple for that kind of runtime.
- ▶ 12:40 Ben Gilbert Even before Netscape, before JavaScript, you joined Silicon Graphics.
- ▶ 18:19 Brendan Eich I rescued watermark to take over JavaScript in late 97, and I went off to found mozilla.org after I'd standardized JavaScript.
- ▶ 19:59 Brendan Eich Definitionally and spiritually, and as the community manager, and I did the tech side, and we had a bunch of IT people and a couple of tools people who helped us build things that are now taken for granted or now standard on GitHub, and we…
- ▶ 38:42 Brendan Eich And it wasn't really at first clearly about fast JavaScript or all the stuff that people think of.
- ▶ 56:48 Brendan Eich JavaScript is used on these publisher pages, and I designed JavaScript on purpose.
- ▶ 57:08 Brendan Eich So JavaScript's mutability was a huge boon.
- ▶ 1:41:55 Brendan Eich That was a historic blog post, but some of them are still relevant to do with trust but verify, also WebAssembly, JavaScript stuff.
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:41 Christina Cacioppo Um, and so they, they started something called SockTo, uh, which sort of like Java, JavaScript, like,