In the taut 20-minute video above, Eich takes viewers through the JavaScript solar system: the core of JavaScript, plus the various add-ons, features, and related technologies that orbit it.

Decorators is a JavaScript proposal to annotate and modify classes and properties at design time. Additionally, Eich lauded WebGL, which provides a 3D rendering standard for Web development.

JavaScript, the now-ubiquitous scripting language popular in client-side Web development, has gotten faster and could find itself being used instead of Adobe Flash technology, Brendan Eich, the ...

JavaScript founder Brendan Eich believes that could be the case. Speaking at the Node Summit conference in San Francisco this week, Eich talked about what could be in store for the popular language.

But the “high road” for JavaScript — the ECMAscript 6 specification — is visible now and already is being implemented in top browsers, Eich said, noting that “ECMAScript is where we ...

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Citing other Web-related developments, Eich said WebRTC, a specification equipping browsers with real-time communications apps via JavaScript APIs and HTML5, would become a standard. The work of ...

Google’s Dart language, which attempts to address JavaScript’s supposed weaknesses, is getting a mixed reaction from the inventor of JavaScript itself, Brendan Eich.

Yoorah! Mozilla has finally appointed a new chief executive, and it’s none other than JavaScript creator Brendan Eich. Since its then-leader Gary Kovacs announced his departure in April 2013 ...

Brendan Eich created JavaScript, the popular scripting language being used to liven up Internet applications. Coupled with XML, JavaScript has become part of the AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and ...

Is it JavaScript's destiny to accomplish what Java was intended to achieve and be ubiquitous throughout computing? JavaScript founder Brendan Eich believes that could be the case. Speaking at the ...