Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 07:05:03 +0000
<p>A mission to set the course of the world wide web in its early days. 10 days to get it done. The result? An indispensable language that changed everything.</p> <p>JavaScript was the underdog that won against all odds. <a href="https://twitter.com/pomeranian99">Clive Thompson</a> recounts the browser wars and how much the fallout influenced the future of the internet. <a href="https://twitter.com/drchuck">Charles Severance</a> explains how JavaScript went from a last-minute moonshot to the default web development language. <a href="https://twitter.com/mwcz">Michael Clayton</a> confesses he, like many others, underestimated JavaScript. And <a href="https://twitter.com/klintron">Klint Finley</a> describes a gloomy internet without it.</p> <p>If you want to dive deeper into the story of JavaScript, head on over to <a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes">redhat.com/commandlineheroes</a></p> <p>We first mentioned JavaScript's story in <a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-2/hello-world">Episode 2 of Season 2</a>—and made a slight correction to the story in this episode.</p> <p>To learn <em>even more</em> about those 10 days, check out the <a href="https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/124-jsj-the-origin-of-javascript-with-brendan-eich/">DevChat podcast interview with Brendan</a>.</p>
