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The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

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 ...

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ...

Prominent scripting languages, once viewed as the future of programming by offering ease of use, have slipped in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity. Only Python and JavaScript still have ...

Earlier this week, Microsoft went public with the early-preview fruits of a two- to three-year project at the company to create a "superset" of the JavaScript scripting language. That effort, ...

Scripting languages such as JavaScript and VBScript are most widely used for developing web pages that are interactive in nature. JavaScript is a programming language that was developed by Netscape ...

There have been several announcements this week that may be of interest to developers. JavaScript for OSA 1.0 JavaScript for OSA 1.0 has gone final. JavaScript for OSA is an implementation of the ...