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0 pointsIshKebab3y ago0 comments

It's not. ECMAScript is just an awkward name they used because people couldn't agree to use "JavaScript". They're really the same thing.

Implementations of ECMAScript/JavaScript are things like V8 and Spidermonkey.

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And people couldn't agree to use JavaScript because the term was trademarked.

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0 pointsIshKebab3y ago0 comments

It's not. ECMAScript is just an awkward name they used because people couldn't agree to use "JavaScript". They're really the same thing.

Implementations of ECMAScript/JavaScript are things like V8 and Spidermonkey.

And people couldn't agree to use JavaScript because the term was trademarked.

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