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{{Short description|Specification for Javascript and other programming languages}}

{{Infobox programming language

| name = ECMAScript

| paradigm = [[Multi-paradigm]]: [[prototype-based programming|prototype-based]], [[functional programming|functional]], [[imperative programming|imperative]]

| designer = [[Brendan Eich]], [[Ecma International]]

| typing = [[weak typing|weak]], [[dynamic typing|dynamic]]

| implementations = [[JavaScript]], [[SpiderMonkey]], [[V8 (JavaScript engine)|V8]], [[ActionScript]], [[JScript]], [[QtScript]], [[InScript (JavaScript engine)|InScript]], [[Google Apps Script]]

| website = {{URL|https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-262/}}

| year = {{Start date and age|1997}}

| influenced_by = [[Self (programming language)|Self]], [[HyperTalk]], [[AWK]], [[C (programming language)|C]], [[CoffeeScript]], [[Perl]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]]

}}

{{Infobox file format

| name = ECMAScript (file format)

| icon = [[File:Crystal source.svg]]

| logo =

| screenshot =

| caption =

| extension = .es

| mime = application/ecmascript

| type code =

| uniform type =

| magic =

| owner = [[Sun Microsystems]],<br />[[Ecma International]]

| released = {{Start date and age|1997|06}}

| latest release version = Edition 13

| latest release date = {{start date and age|2022|06}}

| genre = [[Scripting language]]

| container for =

| contained by =

| extensions = JavaScriptes

| extended to =

| standard =

| url = [http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm ECMA-262], [http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-290.htm ECMA-290],<br />[http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-327.htm ECMA-327], [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104082608/http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-357.htm ECMA-357],<br />[http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-402.htm ECMA-402]

}}

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}}</ref> is a [[JavaScript]] standard intended to ensure the [[interoperability]] of [[web page]]s across different [[web browser|browser]]s.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wirfs-Brock |first1=Allen |last2=Eich |first2=Brendan |date=2020-05-02 |year=2020 |title=JavaScript: The First 20 Years |journal=Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages |volume=4 |pages=1–189 |doi=10.1145/3386327 |doi-access=free |s2cid=219603695}}</ref> It is standardized by [[Ecma International]] in the document [https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-262/ ECMA-262].

ECMAScript is commonly used for [[client-side scripting]] on the [[World Wide Web]], and it is increasingly being used for writing server-side applications and services using <span lang="en" dir="ltr">[[Node.js]]</span> and other runtime environments.{{Cn|date=April 2023}}

== ECMAScript, ECMA-262 and JavaScript ==