Some web-specific APIs, such as fetch and Websockets, is also built-in. It’s an early project, and we’re suspicious of any claims made by the project developers, but we’re cautiously optimistic.

V8, an open source Google project, is a powerful JavaScript engine for Chrome that's helped advance the web and web applications. V8 also powers the server-side runtime Node.js.

JavaScript's growth has also been spurred by variants like Microsoft's TypeScript, which it built for large-scale JavaScript projects and has quickly become one of the most popular programming ...