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JavaScript

Powering the Web

First appeared: 1995Designed by: Brendan Eich

The language of the browser, ubiquitous for front-end and back-end development with an enormous ecosystem.

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Paradigm

Multi-paradigmOOPFunctional

Hello, World

console.log("Hello, World!");

About

Created by Brendan Eich at Netscape in 10 days in 1995. Standardized as ECMAScript. Node.js (2009) made it a server language. ES6 (2015) modernized it.

Type system: Dynamic

Ecosystem

Package Managers
npmYarnpnpmBun
Frameworks
ReactVueNext.jsExpressNode.js

Learning Resources

MDN Web DocsJavaScript.info