“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...

The Web scripting capability of Java Specification Request (JSR) 223, Scripting for the Java Platform, specifies what a script engine must implement so that code written in the script language can run ...

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...

The most common programming languages on the Web include HyperText Markup Language, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets and PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Some are used in conjunction with each other ...

You want to build a website or web app. So, what are the best web programming languages available, and why are they the best? It's a weighty question, and I'd like to emphasize -- strongly and upfront ...

The other day I was asked what language a person should learn in order to have the best chance of quickly landing a web development job. My mind travelled back to college where I was introduced to ...

The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform. Even the traditional Java and Microsoft languages have had to make room for ...

WhiteHat Security, a Web security company, recently announced the latest edition of the “WhiteHat Security Website Security Statistics Report,” which takes a deeper look into the security of a number ...

Web applications may one day surpass desktop applications in function and usability—if developers have more programming languages to choose from, according to a Google engineer. “You should have more ...

Programming languages are like standards; the nice thing about them is that there are so many to choose from. Selecting the best programming languages for back-end, server-side applications often has ...