Brendan Eich
Eich grew up in Pittsburgh; Gaithersburg, Maryland; and Palo Alto,[3] where he attended Ellwood P. Cubberley High School, graduating in the class of 1979.He originally joined intending to put Scheme "in the browser",[5] but his Netscape managers insisted that the language's syntax resemble that of Java.[5][6] At first the language was called Mocha, but it was renamed LiveScript in September 1995 and finally – in a joint announcement with Sun Microsystems – it was named JavaScript in December.[20] The Wall Street Journal initially reported that, in protest against his coming appointment, half of Mozilla's board (Gary Kovacs, John Lilly, and Ellen Siminoff) stepped down,[25] leaving Mitchell Baker, Reid Hoffman, and Katharina Borchert.[36][37] Mozilla made a press release saying that board members tried to get Eich to stay in the company in a different role, but that he had chosen to sever ties for the time being.[39] In January 2016, the company released developer versions of its open-source, Chromium-based Brave web browser,[40] which blocks ads and trackers.