SPLASH 2011: Brendan Eich - JavaScript Today and Tomorrow | Charles | Channel 9: "Here, we meet Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript and currently the CFO of the Mozilla Foundation. JavaScript is a very interesting language (it's general purpose, dynamic, quasi-functional, object oriented) and one that is widely used on the web (in fact, no other language comes close, really). Brendan wrote the first version of JavaScript to support both novice and advanced users (quite the challenge - but he pulled it off!). JavaScript is also widely used today as a compiler (or "transpiler") target, where JavaScript plays the role of a web assembly language.
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