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Brendan Eich (/ ˈ aɪ k / YK; born July 4, 1961) [1] is an American computer programmer and technology executive. He created the JavaScript programming language and co-founded the Mozilla project, the Mozilla Foundation , and the Mozilla Corporation .
SpiderMonkey is the original JavaScript engine developed by Brendan Eich when he invented JavaScript in 1995 as a developer at Netscape. It became part of the Mozilla product family when Mozilla inherited Netscape's code-base in 1998. In 2011, Eich transferred the nominal ownership of the SpiderMonkey code and project to Dave Mandelin. [80]
SpiderMonkey. SpiderMonkey is an open-source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine by the Mozilla Foundation. [4] It is the first JavaScript engine, written by Brendan Eich at Netscape Communications, and later released as open source and currently maintained by the Mozilla Foundation. It is used in the Firefox web browser .
An early Netscape employee, Brendan Eich, created the JavaScript programming language, the most widely used language for client-side scripting of web pages. A founding engineer of Netscape, Lou Montulli, created HTTP cookies. The company also developed SSL which was used for securing online communications before its successor TLS took over.
There was a desire in the flourishing web development scene to remove this limitation, so in 1995, Netscape decided to add a programming language to Navigator. They pursued two routes to achieve this: collaborating with Sun Microsystems to embed the Java language, while also hiring Brendan Eich to embed the Scheme language. [6]
The ECMAScript specification is a standardized specification of a scripting language developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape; initially named Mocha, then LiveScript, and finally JavaScript. [7] In December 1995, Sun Microsystems and Netscape announced JavaScript in a press release. [8]
Mozilla Corporation. The Mozilla Corporation (stylized as moz://a) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of Internet -related applications such as the Firefox web browser, by a global community of open-source developers, some of whom are employed by the corporation itself.
The first JavaScript engine was created by Brendan Eich in 1995 for the Netscape Navigator web browser. [5] It was a rudimentary interpreter for the nascent language Eich invented. [6] (This evolved into the SpiderMonkey engine, still used by the Firefox browser. [5])