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What is JavaScript?

JavaScript is a platform-independent scripting language developed by Netscape for use in HTML pages. Netscape was originally working on a scripting language called LiveScript, but in collaboration with Sun Microsystems transformed the language into JavaScript, which more closely resembles Sun's Java programming language.

Like other scripting languages, JavaScript produces codes that runs inside other applications, such as Web browsers. JavaScripts cannot be executed independently.

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