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JavaScript

Language of the web; the only programming language that runs natively in every browser

USA πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ 1995 Programming Languages

Key Facts

  1. 1

    Created by Brendan Eich at Netscape in just 10 days (1995); only language that runs in browsers natively

  2. 2

    Powers the interactive web; with Node.js, also runs on servers β€” full-stack language

  3. 3

    Most used language on GitHub; frameworks React, Angular, Vue drive modern web applications

πŸ’‘ Did you know? Despite the name, JavaScript has almost nothing in common with Java β€” named for marketing reasons in 1995

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Programming Languages

Country

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA

Year / Era

1995

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Language of the web

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