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JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language that conforms to the
ECMAScript specification. Java is a high level programming language, while
JavaScript is a scripting language developed independently from Java and used by web authors to design interactive sites. It has curly-bracket syntax, dynamic typing, prototype-based object-orientation, and first-class functions. Alongside HTML and CSS, JavaScript is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web. Over 97% of websites use it client-side for web page behavior, often incorporating third-party libraries. Most web browsers have a dedicated JavaScript engine to execute the code on the user's device. As a multi-paradigm language, JavaScript supports 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, such as networking, storage, or graphics facilities. In practice, the web browser or other runtime system provides JavaScript APIs for input/output. JavaScript engines were originally used only in web browsers, but they are now core components of other software systems, most notably servers and a variety of applications.