exerinity 🦈
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There's useless and there's GitHub Copilot in VS Code, mf will autocomplete stuff you don't need autocompleting and get in your way yet do absolutely nothing when you do need autocompletions, eating up its limits as fast as possible and then suggesting bogus code





He built the language of the entire web. In 10 days. Under deadline pressure. Alone. 🤯 Meet Brendan Eich 🇺🇸 >American computer programmer. Born July 4, 1961. >Studied mathematics and computer science at Santa Clara University. >Master's degree in 1985 from the University of Illinois >Urbana-Champaign. >Spent 7 years at Silicon Graphics working on operating systems and network code. >April 1995 ~ joined Netscape. Was hired to put the Scheme language inside the browser. >Management changed the plan. Told him to make it look like Java instead. The web at that time was completely static. Web pages couldn't respond. Couldn't interact. >May 1995 ~ given one task: build a scripting language for the browser. >Deadline: 10 days. >He prototyped the first version in exactly 10 days. It was originally called Mocha. >Renamed LiveScript in September 1995. Then JavaScript in December. >Critics called it a "toy language." >Developers mocked its quirks and inconsistencies. >He had 10 days. Some of those quirks became permanent features. >Within years, every browser on Earth ran his code. >1998 ~ co-founded Mozilla with Jamie Zawinski. Became its chief architect. >1998 ~ named Web Innovator of the Year. First person ever to receive the award. >2003 ~ helped spin out the Mozilla Foundation after AOL shut down Netscape. >2014 ~ appointed CEO of Mozilla. Resigned 11 days later amid political controversy. >Same year ~ co-founded Brave Browser, a privacy-first browser with built-in ad blocking. 🚀 >Today JavaScript runs on 98%+ of all websites on Earth. >As of 2025, it is the most widely used programming language on GitHub. >Every interactive button, every pop-up, every web app you've ever used ~ his language. >He had 10 days and a deadline. >He built the entire interactive web. JavaScript GOAT. 🐐























