JavaScript turned 30 this year, which makes it a millennial, and Tim and James kicked off Breaking the Build by asking the only question that matters: would you get in the JavaScript space shuttle? (James: no. Tim: yes, but only if it's hand-coded vanilla JS with no compile step.) Episode 1 covers thirty years of browser wars, AI that generates shrimp flying through the air when you ask it to change a shirt color, and why overconfident AI is still less exhausting than overconfident coworkers. Also: the PHP space shuttle has a thruster plugin. The free version doesn't include the thrust.

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