Chapter 1: What Is JavaScript?
JavaScript is not the script part of Java.
The official name of the language specified by TC39 and forma...
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Nice π, Yesterday i read this post which said JS is a interpreted language and now i read JS is a compiled language. There is lot of confusion going on this topic.
JS
is a interpreted language.JavaScript (JS) is a lightweight, interpreted, or just-in-time compiled programming language with first-class functions.
softwareengineering.stackexchange....
blog.greenroots.info/javascript-in...
Is there single source of truth for Javascript like a official document ?
I think
Mozilla
statement is correctJavascript
isjust-in-time compiled
at run time and thus not fully compiled at build time like other compiled languages.According to what I know the Mozilla docs are the official and best resource of knowledge for JavaScript. So, you should go ahead with that!
These are the notes of Chapter 1 of YDKJS: Get Started.
If you want to read the complete chapter, book, or series, please head over to their repository:
github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
Thank you :-)
Keep on
Regards
Thanks, Do you have any suggestions on how I can improve these blogs?
That's well written... Good job Rajat. It will be really appriciable if you put new articles regularly from YDKJS on Dev.to
Thanks a lot Kushagra, I will try my best to publish more of such articles.
Here are the links to all the chapters:
Thanks Rajat, for sharing this value bombs π«πππΌ
Glad you liked it!
Do read notes of the other chapters too :)
ππΌ will do!
That was really well written!
I've never thought JS to be a compiled before. Kinda blown my mind when I think about it.
Hey, thanks man!
Yeah, this was shocking for me as well!
The complete book series has a lot of shocking secrets about the language :)
Nice job Rajat :) I use JS regularly but didn't really know much of this history / background info :)
Thanks Dan, Glad it helped you ;)
Such a good article for a newbie like me. Keep up the good work.
Thanks a lot broππ
Good work, Rajat !!
Thank you, Sir ;)