JavaScript is a high-level, dynamically typed client-side scripting language.

Brendan Eich discover the Javascript

Mocha ⇒ LiveScript ⇒ JavaScript

Made in Just 10 Days.

Named as JavaScript because of popularity Java at that Time

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Any Application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

— Atwood’s Law (Founder of Stackoverflow)

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ECMA (Ecma International) stands for European Computer Manufacturers Association, and it is an organization that develops and publishes standards for information and communication technology, including the widely known ECMAScript standard for JavaScript.

JavaScript is primarily an interpreted language

REPL ⇒ Read, Eval, Print, Loop