Chapter 17: ES6 (ES2015) and Beyond: Understanding JavaScript Versioning
by James Wright
As programming languages go, JavaScript’s development has been positively frantic in the last few years. With each year now seeing a new release of the ECMAScript specification, it’s easy to get confused about JavaScript versioning, which version supports what, and how you can future-proof your code.
To better understand the how and why behind this seemingly constant stream of new features, let’s take a brief look at the history of the JavaScript and JavaScript versioning, and find out why the standardization process is so important.
The Early History of JavaScript Versioning
The prototype of JavaScript was written in just ten days in May 1995 by Brendan ...
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