Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where the languages were headed ...

Scripting initiative would capitalize on languages widely used in Web applications and considered easier to use than Java.

The website is “dedicated to exploring the benefits (and drawbacks) of combining multiple programming languages and multiple “modularity paradigms” in application development.

New figures show Microsoft's TypeScript has rapidly become an essential programming language for web developers.