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Brendan Eich

American programmer best known for creating {{JavaScript}} in ten days at {{Netscape}} in May 1995, co-founding the Mozilla project in 1998, and later co-founding Brave Software.

Brendan Eich (born 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American computer programmer. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from Santa Clara University and a master's degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1985. He joined Netscape in April 1995 and produced the first prototype of JavaScript (initially named Mocha, then LiveScript) in roughly ten days to meet the Navigator 2.0 beta schedule. Although he wanted a Scheme-like language, management required syntax that resembled Java for marketing reasons. In 1998 he co-founded the Mozilla project with Jamie Zawinski and served as Mozilla's chief architect, becoming Chief Technology Officer of Mozilla Corporation in 2005. He briefly served as Mozilla's CEO in March 2014 before resigning, and in 2016 co-founded Brave Software, which makes the Brave browser. He has been a long-running participant in TC39, the committee that standardizes ECMAScript.

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