JavaScript's history in a nutshell

Before we go any further, we should take some time to briefly discuss the history of JavaScript and how it has evolved in recent years. You probably know that JavaScript is the core language of the web. It's actually a very versatile language that supports different programming paradigms such as imperative, object-oriented, functional, and event-driven programming.

As mentioned in the previous section, JavaScript can now be used almost everywhere, but that was not always the case. The language was initially designed by Brendan Eich (https://brendaneich.com) around 1995 (more than 20 years ago!) for the Mosaic web browser. The first version of the language was written in 10 days (!) and was called Mocha, and was later renamed to LiveScript. The whole story is very interesting and well worth reading.

It is important to realize that JavaScript has been here for a very long time and has also evolved a lot, especially since 2005, and more than ever since 2015.