John Resig of jQuery fame outlines why Khan Academy decided to offer JavaScript as their first computer language. With video, of course.

New research shows Microsoft TypeScript's popularity is rocketing and that nearly all JavaScript developers are worried about open-source security.

Relatively young by programming language standards, TypeScript was created by Microsoft in 2012. It's closely related to the mega-popular JavaScript and designed to run big applications.

Eich's biggest regret with JavaScript was giving users what they asked for shortly after the initial release of the language, rather than thinking through better solutions to their problems.

JavaScript remains the most used programming language, while TypeScript, Rust, and Python surge, according to JetBrains’ State of Developer Ecosystem report.

JavaScript is the most popular programming language in the world, and one that's vital for many tech jobs. So why aren't college students learning it?

JavaScript, the most popular language on the web, is the standard for writing code that runs in your browser. But the server side is much more diverse.

It turns out that, depending on how you rank programming languages, JavaScript may indeed be ranked higher and may even be the top language these days. The Tiobe index is based on search queries ...

JavaScript remains the most popular programming language, but two offerings from Microsoft are steadily gaining, according to developer-focused analyst firm RedMonk's first quarter 2018 ranking.

U.K.-based technology analyst firm RedMonk just released the latest version of its biannual rankings of programming languages, and once again JavaScript tops the list, followed by Java and PHP ...