A JavaScript engine is specialized computer software which interprets and executes JavaScript (also known as ECMAScript). Although there are several uses for a JavaScript engine, it is most commonly used in web browsers.
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“The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is perfect, the engineer is nobody. Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,—unteaches him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)