JavaScript

10 statements across 9 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Nov 3, 2023 by Michael Royzen · said 65 times in 36 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Nov 3, 2023 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Royzen: Phind Leads BigCode Leaderboard by 10 Points in Multi-Language Code
“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.”
Michael Royzen Nov 3, 2023 ▶ 41:03 Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
Jan 2, 2024
Disclosure
Doshi: Mighty was abandoned because single-threaded JavaScript capped its potential
“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 …”
Suhail Doshi Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 5:42 The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI
Aug 17, 2024 negative
Opinion
Howard: Building web apps is much worse now than 15 years ago
“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…”
Jeremy Howard Aug 17, 2024 ▶ 48:50 Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
Dec 2, 2024 positive
Insight
Simons: Single-Ecosystem AI Code Tools Move Faster via Error Databases
“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…”
Eric Simons Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 1:28:07 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
Mar 19, 2025 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Pai: Durable Objects are the first infrastructure-level JS actor model
“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 …”
Sunil Pai Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 1:52 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare
Apr 24, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Mlejnsky remains bullish on JavaScript and web developers driving AI adoption
“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 …”
Vasek Mlejnsky Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 19:16 Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes
Apr 24, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Mlejnsky: E2B sees 250k JavaScript and ~500k Python SDK monthly downloads
“From number of downloads of our SDK per month, it's like, 250,000 JavaScript, close to around half a million Python.”
Vasek Mlejnsky Apr 24, 2025 ▶ 20:16 Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes
Jun 10, 2025 negative
Opinion
Kirkos: JavaScript is immature for data transformation compared to Python
“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.”
David Kirkos Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 26:51 Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet
Jul 23, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
McCloy: ChatGPT and most AI search indexers do not execute JavaScript
“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.”
Robert McCloy Jul 23, 2025 ▶ 40:38 AI is Eating Search
Dec 31, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Yang: SWE-bench Multilingual spans nine languages across roughly 40 repositories
“Yeah, multilingual, it's like nine languages across, like, 40 repos, but yeah, you got them, like, JavaScript, Rust, Java, C, you know, Ruby.”
John Yang Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 1:57 [State of Code Evals] After SWE-bench, Code Clash & SOTA Coding Benchmarks recap — John Yang
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