JavaScript
High-level programming language
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| 2020 | During COVID-19 containment measures, the Tamil Language Society & Hindu Society of University of Malaya conducted their Executive Council Elections through Helios Voting. |
| 2020 | Faced significant backlash from Brave browser users due to controversial comments about coronavirus policy and science on Twitter. |
| 2020 | During COVID-19 containment measures, the Tamil Language Society & Hindu Society of University of Malaya conducted their Executive Council Elections through Helios Voting. |
| 2019 | Babel's download frequency increased to 16 million times per week, demonstrating rapid growth in usage and popularity among JavaScript developers. |
| 2019 | Babel's download frequency increased to 16 million times per week, demonstrating rapid growth in usage and popularity among JavaScript developers. |
| May 31 2017 | Co-created and launched the Basic Attention Token (BAT) cryptocurrency through an Initial Coin Offering (ICO), which raised $35 million. |
| 2016 | Another cross-site scripting vulnerability was identified, which could potentially allow an attacker to violate ballot secrecy or manipulate votes if a voter clicked a specially crafted link, though the vulnerability could not be definitively recreated. |
| 2016 | Zoltan Kochan developed pnpm as a disk space-efficient alternative to npm for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment. |
| 2016 | Babel's core version was being downloaded 5 million times per month, indicating significant adoption by web developers. |
| 2016 | Babel's core version was being downloaded 5 million times per month, indicating significant adoption by web developers. |
| 2016 | Another cross-site scripting vulnerability was identified, which could potentially allow an attacker to violate ballot secrecy or manipulate votes if a voter clicked a specially crafted link, though the vulnerability could not be definitively recreated. |
| 2016 | Zoltan Kochan developed pnpm as a disk space-efficient alternative to npm for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment. |
| January 2016 | Released developer versions of the open-source Brave web browser, which blocks ads and trackers. |
| 2014 | Association for Computing Machinery used Helios Voting for their general election. |
| 2014 | Association for Computing Machinery used Helios Voting for their general election. |
| April 3 2014 | Resigned as CEO of Mozilla after 11 days, leaving the company due to public outrage over his previous political donations. |
| March 26 2014 | Expressed sorrow for causing pain and pledged to work with LGBT communities and allies in response to public backlash. |
| March 24 2014 | Appointed as CEO of Mozilla Corporation, which triggered widespread criticism due to his past political donations supporting Proposition 8 against same-sex marriage. |
| 2012 | Ben Alman created Grunt as an efficient alternative to simplify writing and maintaining JavaScript build process tasks, designing it as a task-based command line build tool for JavaScript projects. |
| 2012 | Ben Alman created Grunt as an efficient alternative to simplify writing and maintaining JavaScript build process tasks, designing it as a task-based command line build tool for JavaScript projects. |
| May 2012 | Yeoman was officially released at the Google I/O conference, introducing the open-source web application scaffolding tool to the developer community. |
| 2011 | Researchers discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability that could potentially endanger administrator sessions, which was promptly patched. |
| 2011 | Passed ownership of the Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine module to Dave Mandelin. |
| 2011 | Researchers discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability that could potentially endanger administrator sessions, which was promptly patched. |
| 2010 | International Association for Cryptographic Research began using Helios annually to elect board members. |
| 2010 | Researchers identified a ballot secrecy vulnerability in the Helios Voting system, revealing a potential security weakness in the platform. |
| 2010 | International Association for Cryptographic Research began using Helios annually to elect board members. |
| 2010 | Researchers identified a ballot secrecy vulnerability in the Helios Voting system, revealing a potential security weakness in the platform. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Pnpm, Babel (transcompiler), Helios Voting, Yeoman (software), Grunt (software) & Brendan Eich, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.