ECMAScript
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ECMAScript (; ES) is a standard for scripting languages including JavaScript, JScript, and ActionScript. It is best known as a JavaScript standard intended to ensure the interoperability of web pages across different web browsers. It is standardized by Ecma International in the document ECMA-262.
Key facts
- Programming language.name
- ECMAScript
- Programming language.paradigm
- Multi-paradigm: prototype-based, functional, imperative
- Programming language.designer
- Brendan Eich, Ecma International
- Programming language.typing
- weak, dynamic
- Programming language.implementations
- JavaScript, ActionScript, JScript, QtScript, InScript, Google Apps Script
- Programming language.influenced_by
- Self, HyperTalk, AWK, C, CoffeeScript, Perl, Python, Java, Scheme
- File format.name
- ECMAScript (file format)
- File format.icon
- Crystal source.svg
- File format.extension
- .es
- File format.mime
- application/ecmascript
- File format.owner
- Sun Microsystems,Ecma International
- File format.latest release version
- Edition 16
- File format.genre
- Scripting language
- File format.extensions
- JavaScriptes
- File format.url
- Standards
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- ecma-international.org
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/ecmascript-5
- short name
- ES
- media type
- text/ecmascript
- inception
- 1997-06-00
- file extension
- es
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Article
11 sectionsContents
- ECMAScript, ECMA-262, JavaScript
- History
- Evolution
- Features
- Imperative and structured
- Weakly typed
- Dynamic
- Transpiling
- Conformance
- See also
- References
ECMAScript (; ES) is a standard for scripting languages including JavaScript, JScript, and ActionScript. It is best known as a JavaScript standard intended to ensure the interoperability of web pages across different web browsers. It is standardized by Ecma International in the document ECMA-262.
ECMAScript is commonly used for client-side scripting on the World Wide Web, and is increasingly being used for server-side scripting and services using runtime environments such as Node.js, Deno and Bun.