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It's not clear for me if he only coded for ten days. Or he just sad down and thought all algorithms and stuff, and coded in same time. More over there was no s

• BrendanEich 16y ago
  No waterfall process at Netscape, or anywhere near me since the '80s. I designed and coded at the same time. That, plus lack of sleep, show in some of the gaffes. But arguably (Doug Crockford may have argued this) the whole process required JS to make more out of fewer, stronger primitives (first-class functions, prototypes). I know I didn't have time for much else, as I said at the ICFP 2005 keynote. As I told Peter Seibel in "Coders at Work", besides lack of time, I couldn't add anything like (Pythonic, dynamic) classes. That would have encroached on Batman-Java; can't have JS-Robin-the-boy-hostage getting too big for the Netscape/Sun-1995-era-batcave.
  • gruseom 16y ago
    That's really interesting. I think JS is better for those constraints. Seems like a classic disruption: something perceived to be a toy turns out to take over the universe. Some people may cling to the idea that Batman is the "serious" alternative... meanwhile Robin is installed on approximately every fucking computer in the world. It took 10 years to figure out how great the DNA that made it into JS was, but this is what makes web apps possible. We're extremely lucky to have it. Thank you!