JavaScript

Platform/Software
Repository: 
W3Schools - JavaScript
Year initiated: 
1995
URL: 
JavaScript Source
Record Status: 
Incomplete record (stub)
Description: 

JavaScript (JS) is a dynamic computer programming language. It is most commonly used as part of Web browsers, whose implementations allow client-side scripts to interact with the user, control the browser, communicate asynchronously, and alter the document content that is displayed. It is also used in server-side network programming with runtime environments such as Node.js, game development and the creation of desktop and mobile applications. With the rise of the single-page Web app and JavaScript-heavy sites, it is increasingly being used as a compile target for source-to-source compilers from both dynamic languages and static languages. In particular,Emscripten and highly optimised JIT compilers, in tandem with asm.js that is friendly to AOT compilers likeOdinMonkey, have enabled C and C++ programs to be compiled into JavaScript and execute at near-native speeds, making JavaScript be considered the "assembly language of the Web", according to its creator and others.

(Source: Wikipedia) 

Works Developed in this Platform:

Work title Author Language Year
(DES)CONEXÃO: UM LABORATÓRIO DE ALQUIMIA DIGITAL Diogo Marques, Ana Gago, João Santa Cruz, Pedro Ferreira Portuguese 2018
...and by islands I mean paragraphs J. R. Carpenter English 2013
1 corvo nunca mais Rui Torres Portuguese 2020
11 Ways to Escape the Symbolic Field Andreas Maria Jacobs Dutch, English 2013
113983 (wild demo) Piotr Marecki English 2017
18 Cadence Aaron A. Reed English 2013
1_100 Bruno Ministro English 2016
23:40 Das Gedächtnis Guido Grigat German 1997
4079 Zuzana Husárová, Ľubomír Panák English 2011
54 61 72 6F 6B 6F Roman Kalinovski 2014
8 Brincadeiras para Salette Tavares Rui Torres Portuguese 2010
<? echo [THE_SIGNIFIER] ?> Duc Thuan 2002
@DeleuzeGuattari, Rhiz-o-Mat, PoMoBot Anonymous English 1996
a as in dog Dan Waber English 2007
A is for Apple David Clark English 2002
A Modern Harvest Jason Nelson English 2013
A Nervous System Jason Nelson English 2015
a separação:: a(n)estesia Rui Torres Portuguese 2016
A Storm in 2K J. R. Carpenter English 2020
A Travel Guide Allison Parrish English 2014

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Critical Writing Developed in this Platform:

Work title Author Language Year
A Topographical Approach to Re-Reading Books about Islands in Digital Literary Spaces J. R. Carpenter English 2016
Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries Loss Pequeño Glazier English 2001
Electronic Literature Collection, Volume Three Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish (Castilian) 2016
Grappling With the Actual: Writing on the Periphery of the Real J. R. Carpenter English 2020
In the Event of a Variable Text J. R. Carpenter English 2017
Nested Folders: On Birds in Digital Poetry J. R. Carpenter English 2022
Radio Silence J. R. Carpenter English 2016
Remediating Stretchtext Mark Bernstein English 2010
Walks from City Bus Routes: A Circuitous Route J. R. Carpenter English 2015
Writing Coastlines: Locating Narrative Resonance in Transatlantic Communications Networks J. R. Carpenter English 2015
Writing the Web with RiTa and Javascript Daniel C. Howe English 2012

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Version history (text): 

JavaScript was originally developed by Brendan Eich, while working for Netscape Communications Corporation. While competing with Microsoft for user adoption of Web technologies and platforms, Netscape considered their client-server offering a distributed OS with a portable version of Sun Microsystems' Java providing an environment in which applets could be run. Because Java was a competitor of C++ and aimed at professional programmers, Netscape also wanted a lightweight interpreted language that would complement Java by appealing to nonprofessional programmers, like Microsoft's Visual Basic. 

Although it was developed under the name Mocha, the language was officially called LiveScript when it first shipped in beta releases of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September 1995, but it was renamed JavaScript. when it was deployed in the Netscape browser version 2.0B3.

The change of name from LiveScript to JavaScript roughly coincided with Netscape adding support for Java technology in its Netscape Navigator Web browser. The final choice of name caused confusion, giving the impression that the language was a spin-off of the Java programming language, and the choice has been characterized as a marketing ploy by Netscape to give JavaScript the cachet of what was then the hot new Web programming language.

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Sumeya Hassan