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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)
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[–] grue 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brendan Eich, the guy who... developed Javascript

You say that as if it's a point in his favor, LOL.

If not for that asshole, we could've had a decent language embedded in the browser, like Scheme or Python!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean.. if there wasn't someone inventing a usable open source language for the browser it could have been some weird proprietary Microsoft language and our sites would still look like web 1.0

[–] grue 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't mention Scheme and Python randomly; they were the other options Netscape was considering.