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Was JavaScript made in 10 days? (buttondown.email/hillelwayne)
18 points by signa11 on Sept 29, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Proof that decades of firefighting can save you weeks of forethought.


> [He] was explicitly hired by Netscape to put a programming language in the browser (pg 7). Originally this was supposed Scheme, but then Netscape signed a deal with Sun and agreed to make it more "Java-like".

I still would love to have seen this alternate timeline.


Yes. However I love the fact that Euch continued to oversee it's lead and development in tc39, and a lot of credit goes to him where js is today




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