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Brendan Eich, the guy who… developed Javascript

You say that as if it’s a point in his favor, LOL.

If not for that asshole, we could’ve had a decent language embedded in the browser, like Scheme or Python!

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I mean… if there wasn’t someone inventing a usable open source language for the browser it could have been some weird proprietary Microsoft language and our sites would still look like web 1.0

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I didn’t mention Scheme and Python randomly; they were the other options Netscape was considering.

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Oh.

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