“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...

JavaScript turns 30–and looks back on an astonishing history. What began as a hastily built prototype now dominates almost ...

JavaScript is the most in-demand programming language for developer jobs and one of the most versatile languages for full-stack development. Here's what you need to know about JavaScript. JavaScript ...

A newly published paper by Brendan Eich, CEO of Chromium-based browser Brave and the key designer of JavaScript, looks back at two decades of the definitive programming language for the web, browsers ...

JavaScript gives you too many ways to shoot yourself in the foot. Just what you’d expect from a programming language that was created in a week. The JavaScript programming language has a lot of ...

Ubiquitous JavaScript and newcomer Swift garnered 2014 programming language of the year honors from respective ranking organizations. The top designations are based on increased popularity or interest ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

In June, JavaScript broke into the top 10 of the Tiobe Programming Community Index, a monthly ranking of the popularity of programming languages. JavaScript came in at number 10 (up from 11 a year ...

There's now more evidence that Microsoft's language for scaled-up JavaScript, TypeScript, is becoming an essential for developers building for the internet. Developer analyst firm RedMonk last month ...

A few days ago I wrote a post about what programming language you should learn first for a career in programming. This sparked a lot of conversation (much of it on Google+ submitted without reading ...