JavaScript, the now-ubiquitous scripting language popular in client-side Web development, has gotten faster and could find itself being used instead of Adobe Flash technology, Brendan Eich, the ...

Modifications to ECMAScript, the official specification underlying JavaScript, will be made on a more regular basis than has been the norm. At the O’Reilly Fluent conference in San Francisco on ...

Is it JavaScript’s destiny to accomplish what Java was intended to achieve and be ubiquitous throughout computing? JavaScript founder Brendan Eich believes that could be the case. Speaking at the Node ...

Why it matters: JavaScript was officially unveiled in 1995 and now powers the overwhelming majority of the modern web, as well as countless server and desktop projects. The language is one of the core ...