Intro to JavaScript | 01

Who Created JS ?

JavaScript was created by Brendan Eich(also the co-founder of mozilla and creater of brave) in 1995 in 10 days working at Netscape.

History behind the JS name ?

initially, it was named Mocha by the creator, which was later renamed LiveScript. In 1996, about a year later after the release, NetScape decided to rename it to JavaScript with hopes of capitalizing on the Java community (although JavaScript did not have any relationship with Java) and released Netscape 2.0 with the official support of JavaScript.

What kind of language is JavaScript ?

JavaScript is a lightweight, cross-platform, single-threaded, and interpreted compiled programming language. It is also known as the scripting language for webpages. It is well-known for the development of web pages, and many non-browser environments also use it.