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

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

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...

The increasing popularity of dynamic languages has given rise to a growing arsenal of development tools tailored to developers using languages like Ruby, PHP, and Python. So widespread is the array of ...

Easing what has traditionally been a difficult programming task, Facebook has released as open source a debugging tool for JavaScript, called Flow, designed to highlight problems caused by the misuse ...

Computer-programming employment fell steeply after the introduction of ChatGPT and has returned to its lowest level since 1980. Computer-programming employment in the U.S. has reached its lowest level ...

Nothing frustrates a professional developer more than hearing someone describe themselves as “an HTML programmer.” Coding Web pages with markup has about as much to do with real programming as writing ...

You know a technology’s future doesn’t look promising when even the company that manages it has started offering a toolset for the competing approach. In August ...