“By the time I’d learned that Brendan Eich, author of JavaScript, is an anti-vaxxer and was a supporter of a campaign to have same-sex marriage nixed in California, I wasn’t surprised.”
– Journalist and
Devil in the Stack: A Coding Odyssey (2024) author
Andrew Smith, on the values and assumptions encoded in various programming languages. Recounting his journey into coding, Smith reflects on his attempts to learn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in his 50s and why he ultimately fell for
Python: “Its community is easily the most culturally and neurologically diverse I’ve ever seen.”
