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JavaScript is a registered trademark of [[Sun Microsystems]], Inc. It was used under license for technology invented and implemented by Netscape Communications and current entities such as the Mozilla Foundation.
JavaScript has been born again, now that [[AJAX]] has come up. The meaning of this is simply that [[AJAX]] has shown that JavaScript is really still useful in a lot of domains and that (most) web pages that use it can be given a whole new life.
Major browsers have generally implemented the features of ECMASScript 5 (ES5), and have started to adopt elements of ES6.
Updates to implementation of ES6 features are tabulated here: [https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/ https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/]
There's a nice table on Wikipedia that shows which version of JavaScript is release in which version of a browser: [[wp:JavaScript#Versions]]
Once largely confined to browser environments, and typically isolated from access to system resources, JavaScript (and particularly the cross-platform [https://nodejs.org/en/ Node.js runtime environment]) is now very widely used in server-side and application scripting environments, with full access to local file systems and other OS resources.
At the same time, mainly because of JavaScript's role in the web, there is a growing number of other languages which [https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-languages-that-compile-to-js compile to JavaScript].
==Citations==
* [[wp:Javascript|Wikipedia:Javascript]]
* [http://www.squarefree.com/shell/ JavaScript shell], can run many of the JavaScript examples here
* [https://nodejs.org/en/ Node.js] Event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8
* [https://www.npmjs.com npm – Node.js Package Manager] Claims to be the largest ecosystem of open source libraries in the world
* [https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/InterapplicationCommunication/RN-JavaScriptForAutomation/Articles/Introduction.html OS X JavaScript for Applications] JavaScript as an OS X scripting language – supported by the Safari debugger
* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Shells Other JavaScript shells] List maintained by Mozilla
* [https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-languages-that-compile-to-js List of languages that compile to JS] maintained on Github by Jeremy Ashenas – author of CoffeeScript, Underscore and Backbone