JavaScript turns 30—and looks back on an astonishing history. What began as a hastily built prototype now dominates almost ...

A few days ago I wrote a post about what programming language you should learn first for a career in programming. This sparked a lot of conversation (much of it on Google+ submitted without reading ...

JavaScript gives you too many ways to shoot yourself in the foot. Just what you’d expect from a programming language that was created in a week. The JavaScript programming language has a lot of ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They were developed by people for explicit purposes.