Jack Harrhy
Linkblog /2025/05/24

Deno - A brief history of JavaScript.

Deno - A brief history of JavaScript

In 30 years, JavaScript went from being a little scripting language to one of the world’s most popular. Here are key moments to show how it has evolved and where it is headed.

An extensive review of JavaScript over the ages, from its early start being controlled by those who wrote it, to the advent of Noed.js / jQuery / Babel.js / etc. , the cambrian explosion of JavaScript we’re still dealing with to this day.