When JavaScript was created, it was presented by Netscape and Sun Microsystems to Ecma and they gave it the name ECMA-262 alias ECMAScript. Why this weird name? Ecma International is a Swiss standards association who is in charge of defining international standards. JScript (the Microsoft scripting dialect), since at the time JavaScript was supported only by Netscape and the browser wars were at their peak, Microsoft had to build its own version for Internet Explorerīut of course JavaScript is the most popular and widely used implementation of ES.ActionScript (the Flash scripting language), which is losing popularity since Flash will be officially discontinued in 2020.They are all referring to a standard, called ECMAScript.ĮCMAScript is the standard upon which JavaScript is based, and it’s often abbreviated to ES.īeside JavaScript, other languages implement(ed) ECMAScript, including: Whenever you read about JavaScript you’ll inevitably see one of these terms: ES3, ES5, ES6, ES7, ES8, ES2015, ES2016, ES2017, ECMAScript 2017, ECMAScript 2016, ECMAScript 2015… what do they mean? Keeping up with the changes shouldn’t be harder than it already is, and my goal here is to give you a quick yet comprehensive overview of the new stuff available to us.Ĭlick here to get a PDF / ePub / Mobi version of this post to read offline Introduction to ECMAScript The future of JavaScript is going to be brilliant. JavaScript today is in the privileged position to be the only language that can run natively in the browser, and is highly integrated and optimized for that. I wrote this article to help you move from pre-ES6 knowledge of JavaScript and get you quickly up to speed with the most recent advancements of the language.
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