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by rtkis 1383 days ago
I think the post needs a clarification in that ECMAScript is not a language and has nothing to do with the name JavaScript.

ECMA International defines a standard called ECMAScript that implementations such as JavaScript, ActionScript3 (Adobe), TypeScript and probably some more have adopted.

https://blog.risingstack.com/history-of-javascript-on-a-time...