Web 2.0 would have been unthinkable without JavaScript, a scripting language used mainly for DOM scripting in web browsers.

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TypeScript 6.0 is the last release built on the JavaScript codebase. A new --stableTypeOrdering flag lets developers match TypeScript 7.0 behavior. TypeScript 7.0, written in Go, is "extremely close ...

While planning to attend a standards committee meeting in Bergen, Norway in 2023 to discuss Temporal, a proposed replacement for JavaScript’s Date object, developer Philip Chimento of Igalia’s ...

Microsoft has released the beta version for TypeScript 6.0, the last release with the current JavaScript codebase. From version 7.0 onwards, the compiler and the language service will be written in Go ...

Node.js has released updates to fix what it described as a critical security issue impacting "virtually every production Node.js app" that, if successfully exploited, could trigger a denial-of-service ...

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 ...

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...

We’ll start with the most far-reaching addition, which the spec describes as “a new Iterator global with associated static and prototype methods for working with iterators.” The most exciting part of ...

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ...

Oracle this week asked the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to partially dismiss a challenge to its JavaScript trademark. The move has been criticized as an attempt to either stall or water down ...

Making a difference in the world, one word at a time. JavaScript, our beloved language, the beating heart of the web, with powerful frameworks, a large community, it’s everywhere, all-powerful, ...