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Brendan Eich

@BrendanEich

Founder & CEO, Brave Software. Created JavaScript. Co-founded Mozilla and Firefox.

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  • 157
    Total stars
  • 6,744
    Followers
  • 7
    Public repos
  • 0
    Contributions

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  • Contributions: 0. Past 12 months.
  • Followers: 6,744. People who follow you.
  • Total stars: 157. Across all repos.
  • Following: 6. People you follow.
  • Public repos: 7. Owned, non-fork.

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  • 0 Contributions Past 12 months
  • 6,744 Followers People who follow you
  • 157 Total stars Across all repos
  • 6 Following People you follow
  • 7 Public repos Owned, non-fork

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Language distribution for BrendanEich HTML 50.4%, JavaScript 32.2%, CSS 15.0%, C++ 2.3%, Python 0.1%
  • HTML 50.4%
  • JavaScript 32.2%
  • CSS 15.0%
  • C++ 2.3%
  • Python 0.1%

Frontend Backend Mobile DevOps Data AI Security Embedded Game Dev
  • Frontend 100
  • Backend 17
  • Data 17
  • Embedded 17
  • Mobile 0
  • DevOps 0
  • AI 0
  • Security 0
  • Game Dev 0

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Favourite coding day
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Most active year
2021
2 contributions
Signature language
HTML
50% of tracked code
Flagship repository
ModernWeb.tw-2015
51 stars
On GitHub since
2010
16 years and counting

Brendan Eich is a developer on GitHub whose public work is written mostly in HTML, which accounts for roughly 50% of their committed code, alongside JavaScript and CSS. Their account holds 7 public repositories, collecting 157 stars in total, led by ModernWeb.tw-2015 at 51. Brendan Eich has been on GitHub since 2010 and is followed by 6,744 developers.

This overview is generated from Brendan Eich’s public GitHub activity at the time of the last refresh. Figures cover public repositories and the trailing twelve months of contributions.

A falsey object for JavaScript/Node.js that returns itself for all properties and when invoked

JavaScript 21 ★ 2 forks 1mo ago

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Technology breakdown

Derived from repository languages and topics - horizontal bars, never a pie.

Languages

  • HTML 50%
  • JavaScript 32%
  • CSS 15%
  • C++ 2%
  • Python 0%

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7
Public repos
Owned, non-fork
157
Total stars
Across all repos
0
Contributions
Past 12 months
0
Pull requests
Opened this year
6
Public gists
Snippets shared
16 y
Account age
Since 2010
60 %
Profile score
Completeness

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Name Language Stars Forks Size Updated

Coding statistics

Largest repository
3.8 MB
BrazilJS-2015
Smallest repository
2 KB
detritus
Oldest repository
Oct 9, 2012
Strange-Loop-2012
Newest repository
May 24, 2019
detritus
Most starred
51 ★
ModernWeb.tw-2015
Most forked
9 forks
ModernWeb.tw-2015
Most watched
8 watchers
Strange-Loop-2012
Longest description
94 characters
nil
Most open issues
1 open
Strange-Loop-2012

Contribution patterns

By year

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  • 2024
    0
  • 2023
    0
  • 2022
    1
  • 2021
    2

By day of week

  • Sun
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Best coding day: Sun

By month (last 12)

  • Sep
    0
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GitHub journey

  1. June 2010

    Joined GitHub

    Created the @BrendanEich account.

  2. October 2012

    Created first repository

    Published Strange-Loop-2012, the oldest repository still on the account.

  3. October 2012

    First starred repository

    Strange-Loop-2012 is the earliest-created repository to have earned stars.

  4. May 2019

    Latest repository

    detritus is the most recently created repository.

  5. June 2021

    Most productive year: 2021

    2 contributions recorded in 2021, more than any other year on record.

Developer evolution

Your GitHub career, year by year.

2012

Started with JavaScript.

JavaScript
Repos this year
1
Total repos
1
Stars, as of today
41
Strange-Loop-2012
2015

Shifted from JavaScript to HTML.

CSS HTML
Repos this year
4
Total repos
5
Stars, as of today
133
ModernWeb.tw-2015
2016

Shifted from HTML to JavaScript.

JavaScript
Repos this year
1
Total repos
6
Stars, as of today
154
nil
2019

Shipped 1 repository.

Repos this year
1
Total repos
7
Stars, as of today
157
detritus

Built from BrendanEich’s public, non-fork repositories. Star totals reflect current counts, not historical snapshots.

Achievements

3 / 9 unlocked

Explorer
Created repositories in 8 or more languages
Builder
More than 50 public repositories
Open Source Enthusiast
100+ stars received across all repositories
Consistent
A 100-day-or-longer contribution streak
Documentation Hero
5 or more repositories with a detailed description
Popular
500 or more followers
Prolific Committer
1,000 or more commits in the past 12 months
Long Timer
5 or more years on GitHub
Star Collector
Starred 100 or more repositories

Open source activity

157
Stars received
8
Repositories starred
27
Forks received
6
Public gists

Language evolution

The primary languages of repositories created each year.

2012
  • JavaScript
2015
  • CSS
  • HTML
2016
  • JavaScript

Repository growth

Repositories created per year, and the running total.

1 repositories created in 2012 4 repositories created in 2015 1 repositories created in 2016 1 repositories created in 2019 1 total repositories by end of 2012 5 total repositories by end of 2015 6 total repositories by end of 2016 7 total repositories by end of 2019 2012 2015 2016 2019 7 0
Created that year Cumulative total

Language tree

Built automatically from repository languages and topics.

Programming Languages
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
  • C++
  • Python