# JavaScript

Standing (still-up). Founded 1995-12-04.
Site: [ecma-international.org](https://ecma-international.org)

Brendan Eich, Netscape, 1995. Still the language you cannot avoid.

## Why it lasted
- It is the only language the web runtime will not let you uninstall.
- Every attempt to replace it (Java applets, Flash, Dart-in-Chrome, Wasm-only apps) became a compile target for it instead.
- The spec is a committee and the committee keeps moving, so the language never freezes into a relic.

## Near deaths
- It was written in ten days. That should have been the epitaph. It became the punchline that shipped.
- Server-side JS was a joke until it was not.

## What would finish it
- Browsers shipping a different default language. They will not.

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