Introduction
JavaScript
JavaScript is a platform-independent, event-driven, interpreted client side scripting and programming language created by Brendan Eich in 1995 at Netscape communication's corporation. It was initally named as Mocha.
JavaScript Versions
JavaScript was initially developed by Brendan Eich in 1995, and became an ECMA standard in 1997. ECMAScript is the official name of the JavaScript language.
| Version | Released Date |
|---|---|
| ECMAScript 1 | 1997 |
| ECMAScript 2 | 1998 |
| ECMAScript 3 | 1999 |
| ECMAScript 4 | Never released. |
| ECMAScript 5 | 2009 |
| ECMAScript 6 | 2014 |
| ECMAScript 2015 | 2015 |
| ECMAScript 2016 | 2016 |
| ECMAScript 2017 | 2017 |
| ECMAScript 2018 | 2018 |