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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 ...

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 ...

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

Just say no to JavaScript

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 ...
Computing

JavaScript, Python and Java continue to rule RedMonk's programming language rankings

JavaScript, Python and Java continue to be the most popular programming languages among developers, according to the latest Programming Language Rankings report released by IT consultancy RedMonk.
ZDNet

The rise and fall in programming languages' popularity since 2016 - and what it tells us

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...