A powerful, object-based, interpreted scripting language, created by Brendan Eich, most commonly embedded directly into HTML web pages to manage client-side interaction.

The ultimate bloat machine, f**ck javascript all my homies use holy C

Only useful for hiding stuff. That's pretty much it.

A computer programming language, provides a source of endless suffering for many poor middle-schoolers throughout the world (including myself).

Programming Language, written to sit on a web server but be run on an unknown web *client*. Hence it often doesn't.

If people start writing it to meet w3c standards, and browsers contimue to try to implement w3c standards, there may be some hope for it in the distant future.

Scripting language derived from Java (actually it has nothing to do with it); usually a javascript can be found embedded into a HTML page (it is the default client side scripting language) and can be used to implement dynamic features in a webpage .

A JavaScript application which can be executed in both a browser and a non-browser runtime. This was the first term used to describe this concept, but "Universal JavaScript" now has wider acceptance. Mathematicians and functional programmers will scoff at you if you use "isomorphic" to describe JavaScript, so save face by using "universal" instead.