Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160
Why Hacker News recommends it
Linked as a source for first-hand JavaScript and Netscape history, with commenters pointing to specific segments like the Java versus JavaScript decision.
What it is
A roughly three-hour Lex Fridman podcast conversation with Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla and Brave. It covers JavaScript's rushed creation at Netscape, the browser wars, Firefox and Mozilla, and Brave's privacy approach.
Recommended by 5 HN commenters across 4 different months, 2021 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec michaelsbradley · 2021-06 · on “Brave Search beta”
Lex Fridman interviewed Brendan Eich earlier this year (a real gem of an interview, in my opinion). I found all of it interesting, but here's a timecode link where they begin to discuss the current era of "browser wars", technical aspects and history of privacy protections, ads, search, and how that's all related. [this video]
Recommends jcims · 2021-02 · on “Faster JavaScript Calls”
Lex Fridman just did a great podcast episode with Brendan Eich, credited with creating JavaScript. Lots of great little tidbits of history in the conversation - [this video]
Recommends onetom · 2021-02 · on “Choose Boring Technology (2015)”
Recommended "literature": 1. 10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl - JSConf EU ( [LINK] ) 2. Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160 ( [this video] )
Recommends pmurt7 · 2021-03 · on “Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling”
There was this wonderful podcast featuring Eich a few days ago: "Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave" [this video]
Recommends hnrodey · 2023-07 · on “Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995)”
If this is exciting for you then you'll love this podcast with Brendan Eich. Brendan Eich is the creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla and Brave. [this video]
Cites BrendanEich · 2021-02 · on “Brendan Eich on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]”
Hyatt anecdote at [this video] . The point is not about Silicon Valley, commercialization of the Web (although as Dorothy Denning observed, the pre-Web Academic Internet was a more secure world only because not many attackers yet), or academic pressure. WiB applies to biology. I have friends at a synth-bio startup, one tweeted humorously the other month about how bad a hack evolution is!
Cites jasode · 2021-03 · on “The End of Applets”
>If only the conversations between Sun and Netscape had gone a little differently back in the day, and we'd had a single language/system in the browser Brendan Eich said there were discussions with Sun (e.g. Bill Joy) and Marc Andreessen and all agreed[1] there should deliberately be 2 languages instead of 1 in the Netscape browser: (1) an "easier/simpler" scripting type of language LiveScript aka Javascript (2) a "professional" compiled type of language like Java for more complex applications So, it wasn't an accident, or case of NIH Not Invented Here, or corporate bickering. What they didn't foresee in 1994 is that the non-professional Javascript would end up adding more (pro) features tha
Cites 11235813213455 · 2021-03 · on “AskHN: How much is Chrome and how much is Chromium?”
similarly to your experience, I'm using Brave browser (based on chromium) since recently (after watching [this video] ), mostly attracted by the built-in adblocker