"In crafting JavaScript, Netscape wanted a scripting language that could make webpages interactive, something lightweight that would appeal to web designers and non-professional programmers. Eich drew from several influences: The syntax looked like a trendy new programming language called Java to satisfy Netscape management, but its guts borrowed concepts from Scheme, a language Eich admired, and Self, which contributed JavaScript's prototype-based object model."
"The JavaScript partnership secured endorsements from 28 major tech companies, but amusingly, the December 1995 announcement now reads like a tech industry epitaph. The endorsing companies included Digital Equipment Corporation (absorbed by Compaq, then HP), Silicon Graphics (bankrupt), Netscape itself (bought by AOL, dismantled). Sun Microsystems, co-creator of JavaScript and owner of Java, was acquired by Oracle in 2010. JavaScript outlived them all."
JavaScript originated in May 1995 when Brendan Eich built a working prototype during a ten-day sprint at Netscape to enable interactive webpages for designers and non-professional programmers. The language publicly shipped later that year and reached version 1.0 in March 1996. Its syntax echoed Java while its concepts drew from Scheme and Self, producing a prototype-based object model. JavaScript achieved near-universal client-side adoption and later expanded to power server backends, mobile apps, desktop software, and some embedded systems. Many early endorsing tech companies have since been absorbed or shuttered while JavaScript continued to grow and dominate web programming.
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