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To be fair, he's also responsible for JavaScript.
by tachyonbeam 9y ago
To be fair, he's also responsible for JavaScript.
- goatlover 9y agoTrue, but I listened to his podcast on the history of JS, and he was hired to put Scheme in the browser, but then management decided it needed to be something else, which turned into a compromise with Sun because they were wanting Java. And then there was a limited time to make it happen before Netscape shipped. After that time, whenever Brendan wanted to fix things in the language, he couldn't, because you can't break the web for people already using things as they are. This happened several times.
- ihsw2 9y agoI'm on the fence about this, especially given that it's my livelihood. Sure, I worked through the bad old days of writing `document.getElementById()` by hand, Scriptaculous vs MooTools, mountainous files of jQuery, Backbone vs Angular, and CoffeeScript when it was cool, but I can't deny that things aren't so bad nowadays. Maybe I'm just naive.