If you've always wished you could have a well-paid tech career but lacked the confidence to try learning to code, then you need to know that JavaScript is actually quite a simple programming language ...

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 ...

JavaScript is a flexible language, allowing for all sorts of styles and programming paradigms. Although this breadth sometimes comes at a cost to readability or consistency across a code base, it also ...

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 ...

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for building internet applications. Brendan Eich, the language's original designer, ...

Peter has been experiencing culture shock as he adapts to working with JavaScript, starting with the discovery that JavaScript isn't an object-oriented language. I've always had a jaundiced view of ...

The Internet is about to hit its fourth major shift in server architecture. The early days were powered by simple Perl applications. As the dotcom hit, Java application servers running on highend UNIX ...

A new spec on which JavaScript 2.0 will be based , should be finalized by the end of the fall. Yet most of the proposed changes do close to nothing to actually improve the language. A lot of ...

JavaScript programmers have many good tools to choose from—almost too many to keep track of. In this article, I discuss 10 text editors with good support for developing with JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS ...

The battle for the best programming language is raging. But who will make it out on top? Just kidding, they’re all great, but we did check our database of job postings from over 6,000 tech companies ...