Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood
Jeff Atwood in 2008
Born1970 (age 53–54)[1][2]
Occupation(s)Software developer, writer
Known forCoding Horror (blog), Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange[3][4]

Jeff Atwood (born 1970) is an American software developer, author, blogger, and entrepreneur. He co-founded the question-and-answer network Stack Exchange, which contains the Stack Overflow website for computer programming questions. Atwood is the owner and writer of the computer programming blog Coding Horror, focused on programming and human factors. As of 2012, his most recent project was Discourse, an open source Internet discussion platform.[3]

In a 2007 blog post, Atwood proposed the following rule related to the rule of least power, calling it Atwood's law: "Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript".[5]

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  5. ^ Atwood, Jeff (July 17, 2007). "The Principle of Least Power". Coding Horror. Archived from the original on March 5, 2014. Retrieved October 1, 2024. I propose a corollary to this rule [the rule of least power], which ... I'll call Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.