Quirks aside, JS is the most accessible language to learn.

Most of us, by now, should have heard of the programming language known as JavaScript. It is quite popular and is mostly used to develop websites. If your web browser doesn’t support JavaScript or an ...

“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 ...

Understanding asynchronous programming is akin to unlocking a powerful toolset for building efficient and responsive web applications. Asynchronous programming is essential to modern JavaScript ...

The programming language JavaScript emerged 25 years ago and has grown to become one of the most important pieces of the web and browser applications we use today. JavaScript is the go-to language for ...

JavaScript developers want to have their cake and eat it, too. And why not when you're building browser and native mobile apps with the most popular programming language in the world? "Do we want the ...

Figure 1. Functional JavaScript is available as an ebook (without DRM) from O'Reilly or as a paperback. Anyone who has followed my missives on programming have noted the varied exposure to different ...

HackerRank released the 2019 edition of its annual Developer Skills Report and said that Javascript had overtaken Java as the world's most popular programming language. The report was based on ...

Industry analyst firm RedMonk published today its latest quarterly programming language popularity ranking. JavaScript came out on top, followed closely by Java, PHP, and Python. As I’ve written ...