JavaScript is now the world's most popular programming language, even though it started off as a side-kick to Java. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Dec. 4, 2020 at 5:20 a.m. PT ...

Overview  Python remains the most popular and versatile language for AI development.Julia and Rust are gaining ground for ...

In general, handling array functions like we’ve seen here, using JavaScript’s built-in functions like map() and filter(), is an excellent application of the power of functional programming.

Eric Elliot, an Adobe engineer and author of the book “Programming JavaScript Applications,” stopped by theCube at the O’Reilly Fluent Conference to share his take on JavaScript, cloud ...

Today Microsoft released a developer preview of TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like programming language that is translated into JavaScript so that its apps can be run in any browser. The language ...

Well, maybe not nothing. JavaScript is a favorite target language for “transpilers” that convert one programming language into another (see: TypeScript, Emscripten, Cheerp, Cor).

On the other hand, the proportion of developers who strongly agreed with the statement that building JavaScript apps is "overly complex right now" has declined from 30% in 2016 to just 10.5% today.

A study conducted by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) put Python at the top of the list of favorite languages among such contenders as Java, JavaScript, C++, and Go.

JavaScript has a couple more things going for it. JavaScript is the only programming language that has ever shipped on every consumer computer, and it has done so for the last 10 years.