Lex Fridman Podcast
#160 – Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave
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() – Introduction
() – History of early programming languages
() – Physics needs more experiments and less theory
() – JavaScript origin story
() – JavaScript was created in 10 days
() – Marc Andreessen
() – Internet Explorer
() – Evolution of JavaScript
() – JavaScript standardization
() – TypeScript
() – JavaScript ecosystem
() – HTML5
() – Making JavaScript fast
() – JavaScript is the most popular language in the world
() – Advice for programmers
() – Browser wars
() – Firefox
() – Brave
() – Basic Attention Token
() – California
() – Mortality
() – Legacy
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