• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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.ml
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      1 year 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