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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]

}}

'''ECMAScript''' ({{IPAc-en|'|ɛ|k|m|ə|s|k|r|ɪ|p|t}}; '''ES''')<ref>{{cite book

|last1 = Stefanov

|first1 = Stoyan

|title = JavaScript Patterns

|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=WTZqecc9olUC

|publisher = O'Reilly Media, Inc.

|date = 2010

|page = 5

|isbn = 9781449396947

|access-date = 2016-01-12

|quote = The core JavaScript programming language [...] is based on the ''ECMAScript'' standard, or ES for short.

|archive-date = 2016-06-10

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160610005241/https://books.google.com/books?id=WTZqecc9olUC

|url-status = live

}}</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 forto writingwrite server-side applications and services using [[Node.js]] and other runtime environments.{{Cn|date=April 2023}}

== ECMAScript, ECMA-262 and, JavaScript ==

'''ECMA-262''', or the ''ECMAScript Language Specification'', defines the ''ECMAScript Language'', or just '''ECMAScript'''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Guo |first=Shu-yu |date=2022-02-14 |title=ECMAScriptÂŽ 2022 Language Specification |url=https://tc39.es/ecma262/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508053013/https://tc39.es/ecma262/ |archive-date=2020-05-08 |website=tc39.es |publisher=Tc39.es |accessdate=2022-02-14}}</ref> ECMA-262 specifies only language syntax and the semantics of the core application programming interface ([[API]]), such as {{monospacemono|Array}}, {{monospacemono|Function}}, and {{monospacemono|globalThis}}, while valid implementations of JavaScript add their own functionality such as [[input-/output]] and [[file- system]] handling.

== History==

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===Version history===

{{Main article|ECMAScript version history}}

== Features ==

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== References ==

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{{Ecma International Standards}}

{{ISO standards}}

{{List of International Electrotechnical CommissionIEC standards}}

[[Category:Computer-related introductions in 1997]]