Mind the GeekConference50min
How JavaScript Happened: A Short History of Programming Languages
This talk traces the history of JavaScript, from its origin as a proof-of-concept for Netscape Navigator 2.0 to its current status as one of the world's most-used programming languages. The session explores key figures in JavaScript's development, discusses language design, computer internals, and committees, and includes multiple implementations of FizzBuzz. It offers a fun and informative look at JavaScript's evolution.
Mark RendleRendleLabs Ltd
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Wednesday, October 9, 14:00-14:50
Room 3
JavaScript was famously created in 10 days as a proof-of-concept for Netscape Navigator 2.0. Today it is one of the most-used languages in the world. Some people even like it. In this talk we will chart the path from the dark days before programming languages, through the ups and downs of the early pioneers, all the way to 1995 and the creation of JavaScript.We will meet the giants on whose shoulders Brendan Eich stood, and speculate about what they might think of modern JavaScript. You will learn interesting things about language design (good and bad), computer internals (weird), and committees (just bad). You’ll see FizzBuzz implemented at least a dozen times. It’ll be fun.
Mark Rendle
Mark is the founder of RendleLabs, which provides consulting services and workshops to .NET development teams across all industries. His particular obsessions are API design and development, performance, Observability and code-base modernisation. He also uses skills acquired during a few years as a professional stand-up comic to deliver entertaining and informative talks at conferences around the world, and recently learned to play bass so he could join tech parody band The LineBreakers.
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