In a new step to make the Web a more powerful foundation for programs, Google is releasing Closure Tools that it says produce faster, better code. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week Microsoft revealed at its Build developer conference a Microsoft-made Linux kernel for Windows 10 for the Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2.0, giving programmers faster boot times for ...

Even with competition from newer runtimes Deno and Bun, Node.js remains the flagship JavaScript platform on the server. Server-side Node frameworks like Express, build-chain tools like Webpack, and a ...

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 ...

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 ...