Q When can we see the much anticipated JavaScript 2.0? Could we say that for Web developers, this new version will be worth waiting for? I expect these trends will continue over time. Early hobbyist-level work such as Johnny Five endures and grows. People are now even doing machine learning in JavaScript. Thanks to Node.js and the module ecosystem it spawned, JavaScript has moved strongly into servers and IoT devices. Q Do you consider JavaScript as a dominant factor in new, emerging technologies like IoT and wearables? Before that I had important volunteer help. Netscape eventually allocated and hired more people to work on JavaScript in late 1996. Also, I groomed helpful second and third (virtual or even real) team-mates. I helped developers find workarounds and reduce test cases. Q How has the open source community helped in making JavaScript the star of the Web world?Įven before Mozilla or an open source implementation of JavaScript, I used all the early adopter support techniques and energy that I had acquired over the years in software, going back to Silicon Graphics. All this enabled Web developers to compensate for version differences and even extend old or incompatible browsers to resemble newer or different ones. And the third one is the ease in extending the framework and patching (so-called ‘monkey-patching’ and ‘object detection’. The second reason is its enough powerful basic features.
JavaScript itself is certainly the first and foremost reason behind its success. There are three reasons that I see as critical and related. Q JavaScript is presently ubiquitous in the world of the Web. The components were projected to be either built-in (the ‘DOM level 0’ which I implemented along with JavaScript for Netscape 2), or we hoped they could be written in Java by higher-priced programmers. This would empower more people to start programming, by gluing components together with a little script in the page. We wanted a scripting language to complement Java, akin to Visual Basic for Visual C++ in Microsoft’s Windows platform. So, with Marc Andreessen directly, and Bill Joy at Sun supporting me, I came up with a plan to make a dynamic language with Java (or the C family) syntax, which people who were not professional programmers could write directly in the HTML Web page source. But on my first day at work, I learned that Sun and Netscape were working on a Java integration deal.
I joined Netscape to ‘do Scheme’ in the browser. Q What was the foremost aim of developing JavaScript?
Eich also talked of how he enhanced the Web with Mozilla and the work he is doing now at Brave Software. But how is open source enabling JavaScript to power advanced Web developments? Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, spoke to Jagmeet Singh of OSFY to reveal the secrets of the open source framework. JavaScript has already emerged as the backbone of the fast-growing world of the Web.
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