Fixing JavaScript's Date (2017)

Re:Fixing JavaScript's Date (2017) by nobleach on Thursday February 27, 2020 @06:41PM (#22439176)

I definitely don't think Brendan "blindly" copied it. At the time, Sun was pushing Java hard. Netscape wanted in on that. So they delivered an edict to "make it look like Java". We can all say, "well I would have pushed back". But it's hard to say what would have happened. He'd have probably been taken off the project.

Hindsight really is 20/20.

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Re:Fixing JavaScript's Date (2017) by gruez on Thursday February 27, 2020 @09:06PM (#22439939)

>At the time, Sun was pushing Java hard. Netscape wanted in on that. [...] He'd have probably been taken off the project.

Can you elaborate on this? Was netscape owned/funded by Sun?

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Re:Fixing JavaScript's Date (2017) by tyingq on Thursday February 27, 2020 @11:26PM (#22440513)

There was a partnership. The CNet article is still around. https://www.cnet.com/news/netscape-and-sun-unveil-javascript...

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