Right now, I'm working off one of Microsoft's infamous giant press releases. The company has a tendency to do brain dumps in press release form, so we both have to sift through the release to give you ...

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 ...

A high-level programming language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be ...

There are some languages that don't need mass appeal to be loved. Elixir, Lua, Zig, Clojure, Julia, and Rust prove that point ...

Web sites are becoming more interactive thanks to JavaScript, but the increased use of the decade-old scripting language is raising security questions. JavaScript is playing a major role in the Web ...

For some reason, I’m often asked this question: is scripting programming or just systems administration? Oddly enough, we briefly addressed this within the firstPowerShell Unleashed book. But, because ...

One thing you can say for PHP is that it’s persistent. Like many long-standing programming languages, it’s often maligned by developers who would like to see a shift to newer candidates, yet it also ...

The world’s most popular programming language is losing market share to more specialized languages such as R and Perl, Tiobe ...