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The forgotten developer who saved JavaScript...

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Clerk's new CLI sets up end-to-end auth for your entire app. Try it - https://go.clerk.com/0mR9oMU JavaScript was terrible... until one man was brave enough to save it. #coding #programming #javascript Want more Fireship? 🗞️ Newsletter: https://bytes.dev 🧠 Courses: https://fireship.dev

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sherrybaker792 2 weeks, 6 days ago

this may be you best video everrr !

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heathermerritt95 2 weeks, 6 days ago

underscore!... I remember that. Thanks Jeremy. 🎉

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shawnbird242 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Please do more videos about these absolute legend of the industry. Kids these days have started to think everything programming are invented by chatgpt and the likes.

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claude.renard 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Thanks Jeremy 👍

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aprilclark960 2 weeks, 6 days ago

I saw all of this. It was maddening.

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michelle.ortega 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Thanks Jeremy

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sébastienraven35 2 weeks, 6 days ago

I volunteer for running sailboat and foil racing under the Golden Gate Bridge. Anything that keeps people from jumping off and landing on my boat is really, really personal.

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tammy_white 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Nice. Coding needs a Hall of Bin with those 'one guys' on who's (whom's?) shoulders the entire modern coding edifice / Interweebs rests. Linus, Bjorn, JS guy, Pandas guy, curl guy, some ffmpeg guy probably... I'm sure there are others whose stories deserve to be immortalized. If they can't have money, at least they can have nerd respect. As I said, sparkling nice vijeo from the Nice region of France.

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hans-hinrichhendriks264 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Crazy thumbnail 💀

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jacqueline.long 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Truly a hero without a cape

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hans-willi_kallert 2 weeks, 6 days ago

People outside of software would be astonished by the tons of free work many programmers contribute to the world

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jamesstream97 2 weeks, 6 days ago

thank you jeremy

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robin_eaton 2 weeks, 6 days ago

The V8 javascript engine saved Javascript. Before that it was terribly slow. Structure was always a problem for beginning developers, but adding structure to javascript was always possible. The other big save for me is adding JSDOC types to key points so intellisense in VSCode can give correct auto completions instead of everything. It works even without using typescript for everything.

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hannahrichardson856 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Amazing video!!!!

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james_west 2 weeks, 6 days ago

cool story bro

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dimitrios_bonbach 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Lol that large cannons :-D. subtle nod

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stéphane_lagarde 2 weeks, 6 days ago

I need a 'What If: Lua Wins the Web' scenario. Imagine HTML, CSS, and Lua with metatables as components. Lua is so popular that it's used for everything, Python is forgotten. Lua in the backend, Lua for ML, Lua for embedded systems, Lua everywhere. I would love to live in that reality.

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melissa_haynes 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Programming history. Nice.

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jamesrune24 2 weeks, 6 days ago

The cannons joke. O M G.

danieladams607
danieladams607 2 weeks, 6 days ago

this was beautiful, thanks.