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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

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 ...

JavaScript, while perhaps the language with the most buzz these days, nonetheless continues to score relatively low in the Tiobe index of popular programming languages. But the popular Web development ...

Earlier this month, ITworld blogger Matthew Mombrea wrote an interesting post about which programming language is the best one to learn first (his choice: Java or C#). Not surprisingly, it generated ...