His history of designing JavaScript, co-founding and CTO-ing the Mozilla project and being a general expert in coding and the web? Yeah screw this guy. No way he'll ever be able to develop a successful browser.

If you make your technical decisions based on, as far as I can tell from Wikipedia, 1 minor political disagreement with the project lead then you'll be as limited as Stallman when it comes to using a computer. That is an extreme position.

I don't fucking care about his political opinions, and I completely believe he is entitled for them and entitled to contribute to the causes he supports.

What all this small resentful and passive aggressive people did against Brendan was the only real shame on this history.

I'm a bisexual, in favour of marriage between arbitrary combinations of consenting adults(even if I have no interest in marriage myself), and I generally care about politics in tech when relevant.

I fail to see the relevance here.

Seems like he was forced out of Mozilla by a bunch of children who can't handle the fact that people have different opinions and perspectives. Even though I disagree with him on this particular issue, he was not the one acting wildly unprofessionally here. A brief look at his resume and the relative success of Brave as a company suggests he's perfectly qualified at his job.

To be clear, I'm not some Brave fanboy. I don't use Brave because it doesn't offer me anything I need that Firefox doesn't.

Brendan Eich's personal views have nothing to do with it.

You boycott Brave browser because the CEO? The CEO invented JavaScript, do you boycott JavaScript and all websites that use JavaScript?

You really hate javascript that much?

i use and think about javascript everyday of my life so i'll give brendan a pass, idgaf about politics