Brendan Eich is an American computer programmer and technology executive.
14 Facts About Brendan Eich
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Brendan Eich created the JavaScript programming language and co-founded the Mozilla project, the Mozilla Foundation, and the Mozilla Corporation.
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Brendan Eich served as the Mozilla Corporation's chief technical officer before he was appointed chief executive officer, but resigned shortly after his appointment due to controversy over his opposition to same-sex marriage.
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Brendan Eich began his career at Silicon Graphics, working for seven years on operating system and network code.
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Brendan Eich then worked for three years at MicroUnity Systems Engineering writing microkernel and DSP code.
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Brendan Eich originally joined intending to put Scheme "in the browser", but his Netscape superiors insisted that the language's syntax resemble that of Java.
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Brendan Eich completed the first version in ten days in order to accommodate the Navigator 2.0 Beta release schedule, and was called Mocha, but renamed LiveScript in September 1995 and finally in a joint announcement with Sun Microsystems it was named JavaScript in December.
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Brendan Eich continued to oversee the development of SpiderMonkey, the specific implementation of JavaScript in Navigator.
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In early 1998, Brendan Eich co-founded the free and open source software project Mozilla with Jamie Zawinski and others, creating the mozilla.
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Brendan Eich continued to "own" the Mozilla SpiderMonkey module, its JavaScript engine, until he passed on the ownership of it to Dave Mandolin in 2011.
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On March 26,2014, Brendan Eich expressed "sorrow for causing pain" and pledged to "work with LGBT communities and allies" at Mozilla.
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Mozilla made a press release saying that board members tried to get Brendan Eich to stay in the company in a different role, but that he had chosen to sever ties for the time being.
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Brendan Eich is the CEO of Brave Software, an Internet browser platform company that raised $2.5 million in early funding from angel investors.
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At Brave Software, Brendan Eich co-created the Basic Attention Token, a cryptocurrency designed for use in the Brave browser.