This science fiction / comedy / completely serious talk traces the history of JavaScript, and programming in general, from 1995 until 2035. It’s not pro- or anti-JavaScript; the language’s flaws are discussed frankly, but its ultimate impact on the industry is tremendously positive.


Yeah, I’m the lead on a bunch of websites that all have to be localised.
There’s a lot of weird footguns to watch out for, and a lot of retraining devs when they’re used to only working on a single language/locale.
Two biggest head scratchers I’ve had to deal with are computers treating “fr-FR” different from “fr-fr” (due to file system case-sensitivity differences between developers), and having to undo the coded assumption that languages and locales follow an [a-z]{2}-[a-z]{2} pattern (e.g. “en-gb”) once we stumbled upon Latino Americano: “es-419”.
EDIT: My left ear really loves the Erlang talk.
This fixes it: