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  2. JavaScript - Wikipedia

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    JavaScript (/ ˈdʒɑːvəskrɪpt /), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the Web, alongside HTML and CSS. 99% of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior. [10] Web browsers have a dedicated JavaScript engine that executes the client code.

  3. JavaScript engine - Wikipedia

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    JavaScript engines are typically developed by web browser vendors, and every major browser has one. In a browser, the JavaScript engine runs in concert with the rendering engine via the Document Object Model and Web IDL bindings. [ 2 ] However, the use of JavaScript engines is not limited to browsers; for example, the V8 engine is a core ...

  4. Interpreter (computing) - Wikipedia

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    An interpreter might well use the same lexical analyzer and parser as the compiler and then interpret the resulting abstract syntax tree. Example data type definitions for the latter, and a toy interpreter for syntax trees obtained from C expressions are shown in the box.

  5. V8 (JavaScript engine) - Wikipedia

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    Ignition is a register based machine and shares a similar (albeit not the exact same) design to the templating interpreter utilized by HotSpot. In 2017, V8 shipped a brand-new compiler pipeline, consisting of Ignition (the interpreter) and TurboFan (the optimizing compiler). Starting with V8 version 5.9, Full-codegen (the early baseline ...

  6. List of ECMAScript engines - Wikipedia

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    Tamarin: An ActionScript and ECMAScript engine used in Adobe Flash. V8: A JavaScript engine used in Google Chrome and other Chromium -based browsers, Node.js, Deno, and V8.NET. GNU Guile features an ECMAScript interpreter as of version 1.9. Nashorn: A JavaScript engine used in Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK) since version 8.

  7. List of programming languages by type - Wikipedia

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    Guile. Emacs Lisp. JavaScript and some dialects, e.g., JScript. Lua (embedded in many games) OpenCL (extension of C and C++ to use the GPU and parallel extensions of the CPU) OptimJ (extension of Java with language support for writing optimization models and powerful abstractions for bulk data processing) Perl.

  8. Source-to-source compiler - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A source-to-source translator, source-to-source compiler (S2S compiler), transcompiler, or transpiler[1][2][3] is a type of translator that takes the source code of a program written in a programming language as its input and produces an equivalent source code in the same or a different programming language.

  9. Babel (transcompiler) - Wikipedia

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    Compiler. License. MIT [3] Website. babeljs.io. Babel is a free and open-source JavaScript transcompiler that is mainly used to convert ECMAScript 2015+ (ES6+) code into backwards-compatible JavaScript code that can be run by older JavaScript engines. It allows web developers to take advantage of the newest features of the language.