JavaScript

“We created this visual interface over HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and it was sort of, you know, the first no-code application that was out there.”

“JavaScript is the original sort of vibe language, because JavaScript didn't have types. You could like run into errors. But the reason why we adopted JavaScript is because web software was not going to kill anyone. Your Gmail, if someone pushes a bug to Gmail,…”

“Yeah, multilingual, it's like nine languages across, like, 40 repos, but yeah, you got them, like, JavaScript, Rust, Java, C, you know, Ruby.”

“And by the way, it's not even using AI credits cause it's all JS. It's all JavaScript. So you create a framework that you don't even need a backend for that you sell access to that they're either paying monthly, 10 bucks a month, or they're paying a lifetime a…”

“Until 2023, Being really good at coding, whether that was JavaScript, Python, PHP, or anything else, meant you had essentially 10 X or more the earning potential and the ability to build quality solutions than everybody else in the world. And that has been the…”

“Chatsby doesn't execute JavaScript. Most of the AI Search indexers and retrievers don't execute JavaScript. So if your content is not rendered on the server side it's typically not going to be available.”

“There's one controversial take for me working with LLMs is don't use TypeScript. Use plain JavaScript. Use JSX. It's easier for models to write code this way.”

“Where I found the alpha in my life was in actually not immediately go to the thing that was like the obvious high reputation thing. When I started using JavaScript, it was considered to be toy programming language. And it couldn't be fast and it couldn't be co…”

“And that is like the P zero of the entire company is like, we have to solve JavaScript first. And it's because we recognize that was the growth of the industry. And I think, I don't remember where I got this data, I just quote it forever, was the first year wh…”

“JavaScript is pretty immature in terms of working with data. It doesn't have a lot of packages or tooling around transforming and working with data.”

“I still remain very bullish web developers and JavaScript world, TypeScript world, even though we have, like, a ton of usage from Python but there's so many web developers, and it's easier and easier to use LLMs. I really think that you need to cater to these …”

“From number of downloads of our SDK per month, it's like, 250,000 JavaScript, close to around half a million Python.”

“For us, and the opportunity was if there is maybe five million React developers, which is the sort of the library engine that we use, and there's maybe twenty million JavaScript developers, how many product builders or people with aspirations of building produ…”

“JavaScript is almost, in my mind has always been almost like the English of programming languages. It's a language that if you learn it, you reach billions of devices. So it's not a coincidence that when you ask ChatGPT or Anthropic or Gemini to build you a we…”

“We power, for example, the AI SDK, which is the most popular way today in the JavaScript ecosystem to add AI to your product. It has a million downloads a week.”

“Durable objects have been around in Cloudflare for about four years now, and I think they are the world's first implementation of the actor model in infrastructure, the thing that Erlang Elixir made, like, super popular. Cloudflare got that out for JavaScript …”

“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…”

“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.”

“And a lot of that comes down to having a giant database of common errors that you can maybe even fine tune stuff on at some point. Right? So doing that on, on one ecosystem, you can move a lot faster than if you're trying to support a lot of different language…”

“Much to my, you know, horror, the story around creating web applications is much worse now than it was 10 or 15 years ago, in terms of, like, if I say to a data scientist, here's how to create and deploy a web application, You know, either you have to learn Ja…”

“One of the problems with Mighty was that JavaScript is single threaded in the browser. And what we learned, you know, the reason, reason why we kind of abandoned Mighty was because I didn't believe we could make a new kind of computer. We could have made some …”

“All of our models are at the top of the big code leaderboard by far. It's not close, particularly in languages other than Python. We have a 10 point gap between us and the next best model on Java, JavaScript, I think C-sharp multilingual.”

“I made a asymmetrical bet early on that front-end engineering was going to be more important than back-end engineering and that the language that the browser could run, which still to this date is only JavaScript.”

“Due to ad blockers and other unreliable things in the JavaScript world, you end up dropping 20 to 30% of your events.”

“A JavaScript developer just won't care if you support Golang or Rust, but will absolutely care if a key feature like automated package upgrades just isn't available for their ecosystem.”

“What we're trying to say is when you get into a base, you should already know what to do if you're a JavaScript developer, of which there are about fourteen million in the world. So it's the largest pool of developers, you know, around a language in the world.”

“How much good the Webflow is because it doesn't have plugins that can be a downside sometimes. Because instead of paying for a plugin five bucks a month, you're going to probably be developing with JS and APIs and kind of everything on the back end to integrat…”

“Smart contracts really are just a programming language that are probably the equivalent of HTML or JavaScript for creating a website. Only these run on a decentralized distributed basis on top of a blockchain.”

“JavaScript's mutability was a huge boon. It probably wouldn't have survived without it, but it also means there's no Security property called integrity.”

“We saw that there actually was a huge gap in the market for Java training. Most of the other boot camps were teaching front-end technologies like JavaScript. A lot of boot camps teaching Ruby on Rails, which are great technologies and in super high demand as w…”

“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…”

“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…”

“When we invented JavaScript at Netscape in 1995, the concept of cross-site scripting was a complete unknown.”

“So Google, as much as they say they're really good at understanding and ranking JavaScript, They're not because in real time when they're looking for your content, you are handicapping yourself by not having just raw text words on the page.”

“Our JavaScript library is open source, our iOS SDK is open source, our Android SDK is open source, so you can sort of collect data from anywhere, and those collection libraries are open source, but the sort of core infrastructure pipeline is, is not.”

“Again, with like Gmail early on, one of the most internally controversial decisions that we had made was to build the whole thing in JavaScript. And I had lots and lots of people tell me that it was never going to work, that it had been tried before, that, you…”

“So D three became awesome because not that it created this great visual interface in the JavaScript library, but it decoupled the relationship between the data and how it's visualized and how the actual elements in the DOM and how they map.”