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The surprising reason JavaScript is the best language for beginners

For many reasons, including those I’ve already covered, JavaScript is a very popular programming language. In fact, according ...

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

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

Intro to JSX: HTML that does JavaScript

Love it or loathe it, JSX has made a big impact on front-end engineering. Here's a code-first intro to the HTML-based JavaScript templating language. JSX is a way to write HTML inside of JavaScript, ...

This 30-Year-Old Code Keeps the Internet Running

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

Microsoft Proposes Big JavaScript Change: 'We Do Expect Skepticism'

This proposal aims to enable developers to add type annotations to their JavaScript code, allowing those annotations to be checked by a type checker that is external to JavaScript. At runtime, a ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Customize Colors for Code Syntax Highlighting

The most common mistake that C# and JavaScript programmers make is missing braces. Another common mistake that ASP.NET MVC Razor programmers make is to not understand what executes on the server and ...
InfoWorld

New Google tool cuts JavaScript code down to size

Working to improve mobile memory consumption in its V8 JavaScript engine, Google has developed Ignition, a JavaScript interpreter to cut overhead and boost execution of scripts. Google sees the ...