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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:
  Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
  (00:00) - Introduction
  (06:54) - History of early programming languages
  (11:47) - Physics needs more experiments and less theory
  (16:24) - JavaScript origin story
  (41:17) - JavaScript was created in 10 days
  (50:57) - Marc Andreessen
  (54:14) - Internet Explorer
  (57:58) - Evolution of JavaScript
  (1:03:44) - JavaScript standardization
  (1:09:33) - TypeScript
  (1:12:05) - JavaScript ecosystem
  (1:15:15) - HTML5
  (1:18:47) - Making JavaScript fast
  (1:27:57) - JavaScript is the most popular language in the world
  (1:38:23) - Advice for programmers
  (1:44:20) - Browser wars
  (1:50:50) - Firefox
  (2:12:33) - Brave
  (2:25:33) - Basic Attention Token
  (2:50:36) - California
  (2:59:48) - Mortality
  (3:00:54) - Legacy

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