JavaScript was famously designed in 10 days - so it had to evolve to handle complex apps. Evan You talks with Quincy about this and that process on the freeCodeCamp podcast.

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JavaScript was originally designed in just 10 days and was never intended for serious engineering. As the web evolved to host complex applications like Figma, Google Docs, and Riverside, JavaScript had to adapt far beyond its original scope. One key challenge that emerged was bundling — stitching multiple files together while managing variable scoping through module imports and exports, a problem that proved surprisingly complex in the early days of large-scale web development.

JavaScript was famously designed in 10 days - so how'd it evolve to handle complex apps?