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

Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla and Brave. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
1:53 - History of early programming languages
6:46 - Physics needs more experiments and less theory
11:23 - JavaScript origin story
36:16 - JavaScript was created in 10 days
45:56 - Marc Andreessen
49:13 - Internet Explorer
52:57 - Evolution of JavaScript
58:43 - Javascript standardization
1:04:33 - TypeScript
1:07:04 - JavaScript ecosystem
1:10:14 - HTML5
1:13:46 - Making JavaScript fast
1:22:56 - JavaScript is the most popular language in the world
1:33:22 - Advice for programmers
1:39:19 - Browser wars
1:45:49 - Firefox
2:07:32 - Brave
2:20:32 - Basic Attention Token
2:45:35 - California
2:54:47 - Mortality
2:55:53 - Legacy

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