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Versions of JavaScript - JavaScript Tutorial
From the course: Learning the JavaScript Language
Versions of JavaScript
- [Narrator] Programming languages go through revisions over time just like apps do. Bugs are fixed, new features are added. In JavaScript, the feature editions are what people tend to get excited about, which isn't a surprise really. Let's talk briefly about the versions of JavaScript that you'll hear about. Though JavaScript is the language's most commonly used name, the body that maintains its standards is ECMA International, so versions are named accordingly. ECMAScript 5 or ES5 is the version that runs on all modern web browsers really since 2012 or so. There are older versions, but this one is a general baseline. And until fairly recently, ES5 was the version people would usually learn first since there were still enough places where you couldn't expect anything newer to run safely. Indeed, that was the version of JavaScript mainly covered in prior versions of this very course. As of now, we're supporting the next…
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