History

JavaScript was invented by Brendan Eich for the Netscape browser in 1995.

Versions

In 1997 JavaScript achieved ECMA status which means the JS langauge now follows a specification which is standardized by the ECMA.

• ECMAScript 2015 (ES6)
• ECMAScript 2016 (ES7)
• ECMAScript 2017 (ES8)
• ECMAScript 2018 (ES9)
• ECMAScript 2019 (ES10)
• ECMAScript 2020 (ES11)
• ECMAScript 2021 (ES12)
• ECMAScript 2022 (ES13)
• ECMAScript 2023 (ES14)
• ECMAScript 2024 (ES15)
• ES.Next - this is a dynamic version that always means "the next version".