In today's open source roundup: Should you turn off JavaScript for a better Web? Plus: How to customize your GNOME 3 desktop. And understanding the new Google+.

Over the past few years alternatives to Java in and around the browser have been gaining traction, especially Macromedia Flash. Using Flex and ActionScript, you can write sophisticated browser ...

PayPal reveals that writing server-side software in node.js rather than Java is allowing it to serve web pages more rapidly and simplifying web development. How replacing Java with JavaScript is ...

JavaScript on the JVM is better and faster but not always friendlier with Nashorn, the rebuilt JavaScript interpreter. Martin Heller takes the new Rhino's two command-line script runners for a ...

C++ is better than JavaScript if you need to build applications where you must squeeze every single last drop of performance out of a single CPU. i.e. gaming, video editing software, 3D rendering ...

Here's what I've learned over 20 years of working with both C++ and Java (and more years before that with C++): As a rule of thumb, when you convert optimized C++ to Java, the code is about 3x ...

Ok, so I do a lot of Java application development, but want to get into java web programming as well( for my new personal website I'm working on ).What I am confused about is what Java technology ...

Given Microsoft Corp. s aggressive marketing techniques, many businesspeople may be led to believe that it is Microsoft or bust when it comes to computer applications and technology. And though the ...

Java is one of the most popular programming languages used to create Web applications and platforms. It was designed for flexibility, allowing developers to write code that would run on any ...

Identifying JavaScript and Java performance issues. The biggest JavaScript and Java performance issues for modern applications aren't language-specific. Modern apps should be designed to be ...