JavaScript's 10-Day Creation

Guillermo Rauch shares the story of JavaScript's rushed creation.

"There's just so many good stories about the creation of JavaScript. One was the extreme time constraint that Marc Andreessen put Brendan Eich into. The reason it's called JavaScript is they needed to market it as Java - they just added 'script.' There's no relation whatsoever between those two things.

Brendan always says that it took him ten days to conceive the language, and that's primarily because of deadlines. They had to ship something that makes pages come alive.

One of the initial names was LiveScript, and then they renamed it to JavaScript to market it more like the enterprise traction. It'd be akin to today when we want to call things 'agents' and perhaps they're not agents. JavaScript just blended in with Java."