JavaScript (JS)[a] is a programming language and core technology of the web
platform, alongside HTML and CSS. Ninety-nine percent of websites on the World
Wide Web use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior.[10]
Web browsers have a dedicated JavaScript engine that executes the client code.
These engines are also utilized in some servers and a variety of apps. The most
popular runtime system for non-browser usage is Node.js[citation needed].
JavaScript is a high-level, often just-in-time–compiled language that conforms to
the ECMAScript standard.[11] It has dynamic typing, prototype-based object-
orientation, and first-class functions. It is multi-paradigm, supporting event-
driven, functional, and imperative programming styles. It has application
programming interfaces (APIs) for working with text, dates, regular expressions,
standard data structures, and the Document Object Model (DOM).
The ECMAScript standard does not include any input/output (I/O), such
as networking, storage, or graphics facilities. In practice, the web browser or other
runtime system provides JavaScript APIs for I/O.
Although Java and JavaScript are similar in name and syntax, the two languages
are distinct and differ greatly in design.
