We’ve seen numerous server-side approaches and they always seem to obfuscate the powerful trio of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, which continues to win out in the end. Maybe this time will be different.

Node.js is becoming especially popular for use with non-relational databases such as MongoDB. There's a simple reason: Mongo is a JSON object store and its functions are JavaScript functions.

Perhaps most telling about Microsoft JavaScript implementations is that within them, Microsoft tends to couple the language with one that's more proprietary. For example, Microsoft support for ...