
Good day, dear habravchane. This week we missed one event. December 4, exactly 18 years have passed since the publication of a
press release from Netscape Communications Corporation and Sun Microsystems about the emergence of a JavaScript of an “open, cross-platform, object-oriented scripting language for corporate networks and the Internet.” Document subtitle: "28 industry-leading companies have endorsed JavaScript as an add-on to JAVA for easy development of online applications."
The language was developed by Brandon Ike in 10 days. The most interesting facts about his work are collected in the article "The history of the creation of Javascript" habrauser
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1995: JavaScript announcement. The original names are Mocha and LiveScript.
1996: A
JScript version of Microsoft called
JScript is included in Internet Explorer 3.0.
Also in 1996 , the first version of CSS was released.
1997: first release of ECMA-262 standard from Ecma General Assembly.
2002: the emergence of JSON.org
2004: Gmail release, WHATWG appearance, AJAX distribution and the beginning of the web application era.
2006: John Resig announces jQuery.
2008: The advent of Google Chrome and the V8 engine. The beginning of the browser war for the speed of JavaScript.
2009: Ryan Dahl announces NodeJS, the advent of the Server-side JS ecosystem.
Also in 2009 , PhoneGap appeared, bringing HTML and JS to the development of mobile applications.
2010: the beginning of the JavaScript ecosystem of libraries: NPM, RequireJS, BackboneJS.
2011: JavaSript first-class citizen in Windows 8
2013: FirefoxOS
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Thank you all for your attention.
UPD: Continuing to scroll through the Twitter feed came across another important event on this topic:
PayPal drops Java, goes node.js / JavaScript .