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by IshKebab 1387 days ago
It's not. ECMAScript is just an awkward name they used because people couldn't agree to use "JavaScript". They're really the same thing.

Implementations of ECMAScript/JavaScript are things like V8 and Spidermonkey.
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btilly 1387 days ago
And people couldn't agree to use JavaScript because the term was trademarked.
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