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Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160

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With old users still here, how far can a new version change? →A required field, an old web page, a Soviet computer: once a version has users, every change must say who migrates and who carries the old behaviour.This video helps answer · What obligation can one old web page create?

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Eich recalls how existing pages constrained JavaScript revisions. Once deployed pages rely on a behavior, correcting an early design choice can change what those pages do.

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Original passages · 2
the force of web compatibility meant early mistakes couldn't be fixed
Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160 · ▶ 18:48–18:55
you preserve what still works
Brendan Eich: JavaScript, Firefox, Mozilla, and Brave | Lex Fridman Podcast #160 · ▶ 19:05–19:07

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