Following a familiar pattern, JavaScript and Java are atop the RedMonk programming language rankings for early 2016 as they have been before. PHP and Python are in the third and fourth spots ...

Better yet, learn both. According to IT World, Java and JavaScript are neck and neck in 2014 for the most in-demand programming languages, and 2015 isn't showing any signs of that trend slowing down.

In IntelliJ IDEA 13, you can set breakpoints in the Java and Nashorn JavaScript files using the same shortcut key (Com/Ctrl-F8). When you hit a JavaScript breakpoint, you get all the usual ...

First of all, JavaScript is not Java. It has nothing to do with Java (The language and its associated technologies from Sun Microsystems). To be honest, I'm not even sure why it's called JavaScript.

C++ and Java are strongly typed languages while JavaScript is forgiving of code that doesn't specify data types. That was one of the main reasons developers of the popular JavaScript framework ...