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JavaScript Alive

JavaScript
KindProgramming language
Appeared1995
StatusAlive
CreatorBrendan Eich / Netscape
FamilyC
Sourcedeveloper.mozilla.org ↗

Ten days in May 1995 — Scheme's functions wearing Self's prototypes dressed as Java's syntax, now the most-deployed language in history.

Descended from Self
Influenced by Scheme Java
Created by Brendan Eich Netscape
Descendants TypeScript
Predecessors Self

Brendan Eich's 10-day prototype (1995) — Mocha → LiveScript → JavaScript — became the only language browsers run: prototype inheritance, first-class functions, and the runtime that ate software.\n\nNode (2009), npm, Electron, and the web's dominance made it the most-used language on Earth by some measures; TC39's ECMAScript is its standard.

Sources

  1. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript