• grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 years ago

    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!

    • Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      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

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

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