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4 items tagged “brendan-eich”

2010

JS had to “look like Java” only less so, be Java’s dumb kid brother or boy-hostage sidekick. Plus, I had to be done in ten days or something worse than JS would have happened.

— Brendan Eich

# 16th October 2010, 8:25 am / brendan-eich, javascript, recovered

2008

TraceMonkey. Brendan Eich has been preaching the performance benefits of tracing and JIT for JavaScript on the conference circuit for at least a year, and the results from the first effort to be merged in to Mozilla core are indeed pretty astounding.

# 22nd August 2008, 11:13 pm / brendan-eich, javascript, jit, john-resig, mozilla, performance, tracemonkey

Brendan Eich: Popularity. I never knew that Brendan went to Netscape on the promise of “doing Scheme in the browser”.

# 4th April 2008, 7:30 am / brendan-eich, javascript, netscape, scheme

2007

Brendan Eich: New Projects. Exciting new projects from Mozilla. ActionMonkey is joined by IronMonkey (IronPython/IronRuby on Tamarin) and ScreamingMonkey (Tamarin for IE). Upgrading IE’s JavaScript using the Flash Player as a vector is a game-changing idea.

# 26th July 2007, 8:05 pm / actionmonkey, brendan-eich, flash, ie, internet-explorer, ironmonkey, ironpython, ironruby, javascript, mozilla, screamingmonkey, tamarin

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