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  2. Futures and promises - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, futures, promises, delays, and deferreds are constructs used for synchronizing program execution in some concurrent programming languages.Each is an object that acts as a proxy for a result that is initially unknown, usually because the computation of its value is not yet complete.

  3. JavaScript - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 February 2025. High-level programming language Not to be confused with Java (programming language), Javanese script, or ECMAScript. JavaScript Screenshot of JavaScript source code Paradigm Multi-paradigm: event-driven, functional, imperative, procedural, object-oriented Designed by Brendan Eich of ...

  4. SpiderMonkey - Wikipedia

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    SpiderMonkey is an open-source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine by the Mozilla Foundation. [4] The engine powers the Firefox web browser and has used multiple generations of JavaScript just-in-time (JIT) compilers , including TraceMonkey, JägerMonkey, IonMonkey, and the current WarpMonkey.

  5. ECMAScript version history - Wikipedia

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    Work started on Edition 4 after the ES-CP (Compact Profile) specification was completed, and continued for approximately 18 months where slow progress was made balancing the theory of Netscape's JavaScript 2 specification with the implementation experience of Microsoft's JScript .NET.

  6. Generator (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    In Python, a generator can be thought of as an iterator that contains a frozen stack frame. Whenever next() is called on the iterator, Python resumes the frozen frame, which executes normally until the next yield statement is reached. The generator's frame is then frozen again, and the yielded value is returned to the caller.

  7. Ajax (programming) - Wikipedia

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    It appeared as XMLHTTP in the second version of the MSXML library, [4] [5] which shipped with Internet Explorer 5.0 in March 1999. [6] The functionality of the Windows XMLHTTP ActiveX control in IE 5 was later implemented by Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, Google Chrome, and other browsers as the XMLHttpRequest JavaScript object. [7]

  8. Promise problem - Wikipedia

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    In computational complexity theory, a promise problem is a generalization of a decision problem where the input is promised to belong to a particular subset of all possible inputs. [1] Unlike decision problems, the yes instances (the inputs for which an algorithm must return yes ) and no instances do not exhaust the set of all inputs.

  9. JavaScript syntax - Wikipedia

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    var x1 = 0; // A global variable, because it is not in any function let x2 = 0; // Also global, this time because it is not in any block function f {var z = 'foxes', r = 'birds'; // 2 local variables m = 'fish'; // global, because it wasn't declared anywhere before function child {var r = 'monkeys'; // This variable is local and does not affect the "birds" r of the parent function. z ...