With its Dart language, Google hopes to overcome problems with the widely used JavaScript. But some dislike Google's secretive development style. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

A new spec on which JavaScript 2.0 will be based , should be finalized by the end of the fall. Yet most of the proposed changes do close to nothing to actually improve the language. A lot of ...

Easing what has traditionally been a difficult programming task, Facebook has released as open source a debugging tool for JavaScript, called Flow, designed to highlight problems caused by the misuse ...

The Internet is about to hit its fourth major shift in server architecture. The early days were powered by simple Perl applications. As the dotcom hit, Java application servers running on highend UNIX ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

JavaScript is one of the most successful and versatile programming languages in the world, but it certainly didn’t start out that way. Here are 11 ways that JavaScript today is nothing like the ...

JavaScript, it’s no longer the avoidable nuisance it once was. The flexibility of of the language and its ubiquity on the client side have brought it front and center for modern web developers. The ...