> He also founded and built Mozilla, which arguably saved the open web from extinction.
There was already a better open-source web rendering engine and browser at the time. Maybe we'd've got a KHTML-based browser on Windows much sooner that would have filled the same role.
Re:Brendan Eich: WebAssembly is a game-changer
by elliotec on Thursday March 10, 2016 @11:53PM
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Look, if given a chance, I'd shake his hand. But that doesn't mean I hold him to high regard or agree with his views, standards, or ideals. I respect some of the things he's done, but I also disrespect other things he's done.
Mozilla is pretty cool I guess, JavaScript is pretty cool I guess. It's all really just whatever and I think he was very much in the right place at the right time for a lot of this, not that he isn't a brilliant man who's obviously far more accomplished than me.
If you don't respect the founder of JavaScript and Mozilla, your standards are very high. I doubt many people commenting here would meet them.