Introducing ECMAScript
If you follow the news and latest trends about JavaScript, you might have heard the hype about ECMAScript 6 and ECMAScript 7. What does ECMAScript have to do with JavaScript and is there a difference?
ECMAScript is a scripting language specification. JavaScript is an implementation of this specification, as are Jscript and ActionScript.
ECMAScript 6 and ECMAScript 7
As we know, JavaScript is a language that runs mostly on browsers (also in servers using NodeJS), and each browser can implement its own version of the available functionalities of JavaScript (as you will learn later on in this book). This specific implementation is based on ECMAScript. Thus, the browsers offer mostly the same functionalities (our JavaScript code ...
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