A Brief History of JavaScript
Brendan Eich·2016·Fluent·30 minBrendan Eich on inventing JavaScript in ten days, the politics that shaped it, and the long arc from Mocha to modern ECMAScript.
The Cost of JavaScript
Addy Osmani·2018·FluentAddy Osmani breaks down what shipping a megabyte of JavaScript actually costs on real devices — parse, compile, execute, and everything in between.
In The Loop
Jake Archibald·2018·JSConfAsiaJake Archibald walks through the browser event loop — tasks, microtasks, requestAnimationFrame, and the surprising ways the runtime interleaves your work with rendering.
Procedural Programming: It's Back? It Never Went Away
Kevlin Henney·2018·ACCUHenney goes back to the sixties to show that 'procedural' was never the slur we made it into — and that much of what we call modern style is older than we think.
Escape from the Ivory Tower: The Haskell Journey
Simon Peyton Jones·2017·Churchill College, CambridgeSimon Peyton Jones traces Haskell from a research curiosity to an industrial language — and is candid about which ideas mattered and which ones didn't.
A Cartoon Intro to WebAssembly
Lin Clark·2017·JSConfEULin Clark explains what WebAssembly actually is, why it is fast, and what it means for the browser as a runtime — in her signature illustrated style.
The History of Rust
Steve Klabnik·2016·ACMSteve Klabnik tells the story of how Rust got from Graydon Hoare's side project to a 1.0 release — and the design culture that made the language what it became.