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Brendan Eich was on the Lex Fridman podcast recently and gave some new perspective on what and why JavaScript borrowed from Java, and yet took from Scheme (his first love) - giving us the infamous JavaScript callback, which caused so much pain, and yet led to JavaScript ultimately winning in the browser.
Audio source (29 mins in): https://lexfridman.com/brendan-eich/
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