JavaScript
The language of the web browser, and with Node.js, Deno and Bun of servers and tools too. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- programming language
- Developer
- Ecma TC39
- Created by
- Brendan Eich
- First release
- 1995
- License
- Open standard
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://tc39.es
- Paradigms
- Object-oriented, Functional, Procedural
- Typing
- Dynamic
- Type strength
- Weak
- Type inference
- No
- Memory management
- Garbage collected
- Runs as
- Interpreted
- Main implementation
- V8, SpiderMonkey, JavaScriptCore (JIT compiled)
- Concurrency
- Event loop, async/await, workers
- Null safety
- No
- Package manager
- npm
- Used for
- Web front end, Back end, Desktop, Mobile
- Specification
- ECMA-262