What Makes JavaScript Popular?

Why is JavaScript so popular and what makes it so popular? Let’s find out!

JavaScript was created in 1995 by Brendan Eich while he was an engineer at Netscape.

Netscape Navigator

The JavaScript we know today was originally going to be called LiveScript, but it was renamed to JavaScript as a marketing decision that attempted to capitalize on the popularity of Sun Microsystem’s Java language, although the two have little in common.

JavaScript was first released with Netscape 2 early in 1996.