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Mehul Lakhanpal
Mehul Lakhanpal

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πŸŽ‰ 25 Years of JavaScript πŸš€

From vanilla scripts to full-blown web apps β€” see how JavaScript has evolved over the years.

πŸ“œ A visual timeline by JetBrains

πŸ” Milestones, frameworks, tools & turning points

🧠 A nostalgic + educational scroll through dev history

Dive into the journey πŸ‘‰ www.jetbrains.com/lp/javascript-25

Celebrate the language that powers the modern web 🌐

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david duymelinck β€’

You can check the source code of the page, and you see they stopped in 2020 :)

Another sign is that the start date is 1996. That makes the language 29 years now.

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Mehul Lakhanpal β€’

Offcourse, that is the total length, but the articles title is 25 years and the content is also for 25 years. I am not creating a new title here. Its from the archive.