Kris Borchers, the JS Foundation executive director and former head of the JQuery Foundation, explained in his keynote speech: "We've been supporting a lot more than jQuery [a popular fast, mall, and ...

JavaScript remains by a long way the most popular programming language with 13.8 million developers, according to SlashData, a UK firm that studies developer communities. The company estimates in its ...

Salesforce.com has attracted one million developers to its platform and is now making a push into the mobile market with a new hybrid environment that allows developers to use JavaScript to update ...

The Linux Foundation has announced the birth of the JS Foundation, which aims to provide technical governance and mentoring to a range of JavaScript-focused open-source development projects.

The annual State of JavaScript survey is one of the best ways to keep your finger on the pulse of what's new and noteworthy in the world of JavaScript. Here's the rundown from the most recent survey.

In an open letter published September 16, Node.js and Deno creator Ryan Dahl, JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, and several other leading members of the JavaScript community have accused Oracle of ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

At JSConf in Florida today, Microsoft announced that it is open sourcing Chakra, the JavaScript engine used in its Edge and Internet Explorer browsers. The code will be published to the company’s ...

GitHub, the developer repository owned by Microsoft, made a little deal of its own this morning when it bought JavaScript packaging vendor npm for an undisclosed amount. As GitHub CEO Nat Friedman ...