> [!tldr] **The most popular programming language.** This note isn't really going to explain the language I've been using for the past decade. But I want a place to host links and see related notes. - stewarded by [[Standards Groups#ECMA]]'s subgroup "TC39" → Technical Committee 39 - essentially birthed [[JSON]] - [[NodeJS]] & Deno & Bun are all JavaScript runtime environments # Neat Things - a JavaScript implementation of [JavaScrypt]([](https://www.fourmilab.ch/javascrypt/)) PGP - [[Mermaid JS]] was built with it **** ## Source ## Related - [[JavaScript Frameworks]] - [[HTML CSS and JavaScript]] - [[TypeScript]] - JavaScript + type safety - [[NodeJS]] - JavaScript for local development - [[JSDoc]] - the "official" way to write comments - [[JSON]] - a [[Data Serialization]] method based on JavaScript's notation for objects