The Future Of JavaScript

JavaScript is a high-level, dynamic, untyped, and interpreted programming language. It has been standardized in the ECMAScript language specification. Alongside HTML and CSS, it is one of the three core technologies of World Wide Web content production; it is supported by all modern Web browsers without plug-ins in addition to being the only cross-browser scripting language.

Beginning of JavaScript

JavaScript was originally developed in 10 days in May 1995 by Brendan Eich, while he was working for Netscape Communications Corporation. JavaScript has become one of the most popular programming languages on the Web.

Features of JavaScript

• Imperative and Structured (Support much of C Programming feature).
• Dynamic typing.
• Run time evaluation.
• Object-Oriented with the help of prototypes.
• Functions as object constructors
• Functions as methods
• Delegation
• Functions as Roles (Traits and Mixins)
• Object Composition and Inheritance
• Run-time environment
• Variadic functions
• Array and object literals
• Regular expressions

ES6 becomes the latest JavaScript standard and added much more power to JavaScript. Here are some of the features:

• Default Parameters
• Template Literals
• Multi-line Strings
• Destructuring Assignment
• Enhanced Object Literals
• Arrow Functions in ES6
• Promises
• Block-Scoped Constructs Let and Const
• Classes
• Modules

1. http://es6-features.org/
2. https://github.com/lukehoban/es6features

Usage of JavaScript worldwide

JavaScript is everywhere. Most of the modern browser supports JavaScript and it is also supported in mobile devices. JavaScript is the most popular and trending language on GitHub.

See the visualization chart referenced from githut.info.

Image Courtesy- githut.info/

Tools Build On JavaScript

Look at a mind map of tools build on JavaScript languages and used in different areas.

Reference from: codefellows.org/blog/a-list-of-foundational-javascript-tools

Over the past decade, starting with jQuery empowering Web developers with client-side scripting, every popular plug-in has filled another gap in the language and its capabilities.

React.js, Angular and new wow Vue framework extend HTML syntax to JavaScript while streamlining the coding process with data binding and dependency injection.