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JavaScript: the first 20 years

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: How a sidekick scripting language for Java, created at Netscape in a ten-day hack, ships first as a de facto Web standard and eventually becomes the world's most widely used programming language. This paper tells the story of the creation, design, evolution, and standardization of the JavaScript language over the period of 1995--2015. But the story is not only about the technical details of the language. It is also the story of how people and organizations competed and collaborated to shape the JavaScript language which dominates the Web of 2020.

Source: Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages

DOI: 10.1145/3386327

Authors: Allen Wirfs-Brock, Brendan Eich

Language: English

Topic: History of Computing Technologies

Subfield: Computer Science Applications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W3038389348

FWCI: 8.148

Cites: 48

Cited by: 90

Related to: 10