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Brendan Eich

1961–

Brave Software · ex-Mozilla · creator of JavaScript

Gave us

JavaScript. Wrote the first version in 10 days in May 1995 for Netscape. Co-founded Mozilla; later founded Brave.

The story

JavaScript was supposed to be a "scripting language for designers" subordinate to Java. It became the most-deployed runtime on Earth.

More from The web

Tim Berners-Lee CERN · W3C · Inrupt · creator of the World Wide Web Vint Cerf Google chief internet evangelist · co-creator of TCP/IP Paul Mockapetris Inventor of DNS · USC ISI Daniel Stenberg wolfSSL · creator and maintainer of curl David Karger MIT professor · co-founder Akamai

Across the field

IV Pat Helland AWS · ex-Microsoft · ex-Salesforce IV Martin Kleppmann University of Cambridge · author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications V Brian Kernighan Princeton · ex-Bell Labs V Linus Torvalds Linux Foundation fellow · creator of Linux and Git V Margaret Hamilton Hamilton Technologies · ex-MIT Instrumentation Lab V Grace Hopper US Navy Rear Admiral · creator of the first compiler V Barbara Liskov MIT · 2008 Turing laureate V Dan Luu Independent · ex-MS · ex-Centaur · prolific essayist