As a result, scripting languages in general gradually are moving out of Tiobe’s top 20. Even JavaScript has had to evolve, with Microsoft introducing TypeScript, its statically typed version of ...

Ever wondered how JavaScript was created and how it became the world’s most popular programming language?From its early days ...

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 ...

So in this article, I share a few up-and-coming scripting languages that really ought to be on your company’s radar, with a few passionate arguments from developers who have adopted them.

All of this interest is immediately apparent in O’Reilly’s book sales charts, with JavaScript accounting for 57 percent of scripting-language-related book sales, up from 42 percent in 2009.

I’ll concede that JavaScript can be considered an Object Oriented language, I just don’t think it’s a good example of one. Especially as your first exposure.