Allen Wirfs-brock
Pragmatic Futurist Language Standards Geek
Sherwood, Oregon, United States
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RockstarAllen Wirfs-Brock is a pragmatic futurist and language-standards expert who led the editing of the ECMAScript 2015 specification and has spent decades designing and implementing programming languages, compilers, virtual machines, and developer tools. He founded two companies, served as CTO and chief scientist in the Smalltalk era, and later influenced JavaScript standardization as a long-time TC39 representative and ECMA-262 project editor. Allen blends hands-on systems and assembly experience with product and business leadership at organizations from Tektronix and Microsoft to Mozilla, and now advises on the technical and societal effects of the emerging Ambient Computing Era. Known for bridging research, standards, and commercial productization, he offers pragmatic guidance rooted in both deep implementation knowledge and a history of shipping developer-focused platforms.
15 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
1,094reputation
27kreached
12answers
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javascript
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inheritance
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Github Skills (98)
specification10
javascript10
ecma10
async10
linux10
decorators10
js10
ecmascript10
es6-classes10
prototypes10
test-suite10
nodejs10
closures10
spec10
jshint9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
erights/Orthogonal-Classes
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Proposed EcmaScript Class Syntax clarifying orthogonal concerns
Contributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 12 comments in 1 month
ecmascript
allenwb/ESideas
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Notes and proposals on possible EMAScript extensions
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 3 months
proposalsextensionsnotesemascript
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