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ECMA-262

ECMAScript® 2024 language specification

15th edition, June 2024

This Standard defines the ECMAScript 2024 general-purpose programming language.

Kindly note that the normative copy is the HTML version; the PDF version has been produced to generate a printable document.

This 15th edition has been prepared under the Ecma RF patent policy.

Please note that for ECMAScript Edition 4 the Ecma standard number “ECMA-262 Edition 4” was reserved but not used in the Ecma publication process. Therefore “ECMA-262 Edition 4” as an Ecma International publication does not exist.

The latest drafts are available at: https://tc39.es/ecma262/. Reporters should generally only file bugs if the bug is still present in the latest drafts.

Please find hereafter the place to file bugs: https://github.com/tc39/ecma262#ecmascript.

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Classification

CategorySoftware engineering and interfaces

SubcategoryECMAScript®

Technical CommitteeTC39

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  • ECMA-262, 1st edition, June 1997 - PDF fileDownload
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