Javascript

History

• JavaScript was born in 1995 as part of the work of Brendan Eich’s team at Netscape (the ancestor of Mozilla).
• In 1996, JavaScript was standardized by ECMA as the EcmaScript standard.

Javascript Engines

• SpiderMonkey (included in Mozilla Firefox)
• Javascript Core (included in Apple Safari)
• Chrome V8 (included in Google Chrome and Node.js)

Garbage Collection

• JS has garbage collection implemented (like java) unlike C++
• Hence V8 engine has garbage collection feature