JavaScript is being around for more than two decades and is considered one of the most popular programming languages for creating interactive single page applications. But in the first ten years since its inception in May 1995 it was one of the most disparaged languages. Let us take some to dive into its brief overview of JavaScript’s history.
Overview of JS history
JavaScript was written in only 10 days by an engineer at Netscape known as Brendan Eich under the name Mocha. It was then named as LiveScript in next beta release of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September 1995. After that, in a marketing ploy to leverage the popularity of Sun Microsystem's Java language, it was released as JavaScript with Netscape Navigator 2.0 beta 3 in December 1995. In spite of having very little in common with Java this misnomer have been a source of confusion since then.