Scripting languages like PHP, Perl, and JavaScript are taking on programming heavyweights like Java and C, and taking many software developers with them. Find out how the toy languages and duct ...

A handful of holes appear in different versions of a common open-source scripting language, PHP, and could allow attackers to crash an Apache Web site or compromise a server.

Microsoft's superset of JavaScript, TypeScript, has shot up to become the fourth most popular programming language on code collaboration platform, GitHub. TypeScript's ascent is tracked in ...

PHP is used by 76.5% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know. Alternatives such as ASP.net, Ruby, Java, and JavaScript don’t even come close to this share of the market.

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages ...

In the programming language version of this movie, it’s the introduction of Node.js that turns the buddy flick into a grudge match: PHP and JavaScript, two partners who once ruled the internet ...