Jihyeok Park

Apr 24, 2024 | cacm.acm.org | Sukyoung Ryu |Jihyeok Park |R. Colin Johnson |Bennie Mols

Key InsightsJavaScript is the first programming language for which each change to its prose language specification is both “type checked” and “tested” to identify bugs and inconsistencies. The primary enabler is the automatic extraction of a “mechanized specification” from a language specification written in prose, which allows the generation of a reference implementation of the language from the specification.