- JavaScript has come a long way from its early days of form validation and image rollovers in 1995 to modern innovations like ES2015, Promises, async/await, and Web Assembly. - Today, JavaScript features like classes, arrow functions, and template strings in ES2015 are widely adopted, and new standards like Promises, generators, and async programming have revolutionized asynchronous JavaScript. -
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