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The forgotten developer who saved JavaScript...

2026-05-29 Science & Technology
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Clerk's new CLI sets up end-to-end auth for your entire app. Try it - https://go.clerk.com/0mR9oMU JavaScript was terrible... until one man was brave enough to save it. #coding #programming #javascript Want more Fireship? 🗞️ Newsletter: https://bytes.dev 🧠 Courses: https://fireship.dev

Top Comments (10)

@FuzailShaikh 2026-05-29

This can be a series of remembering such people who contributed massively to success of current technology

1.2k 13 replies
@DataIsBeautifulOfficial 2026-05-29

The good ending never included 900MB node_modules

1.3k 19 replies
@brian_caldera 2026-05-29

People outside of software would be astonished by the tons of free work many programmers contribute to the world

177 2 replies
@raz0229 2026-05-29

05:29 "Zero contributions in the last year" > Bro came > Bro conquered > Bro left

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@R55X808 2026-05-29

Fireship is fire when the video script is about javascript

795 11 replies
@DK-ox7ze 2026-05-29

As someone who has used Underscore and Backbone in the past, I just realized how old I am.

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@theproudlinuxer 2026-05-29

old style fireship video back again!

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@sho93 2026-05-29

I was there, Gandalf, I was there 3000 years ago. First paid work as a programmer: writing real SPA using backbonejs back in 2011

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@diga4696 2026-05-29

"Programmers with actual feelings and emotions" - HA

115 1 replies
@gariklaw 2026-05-29

OMG I learned something. Thanks for the history lesson. More of this please and thank you!!

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