Now programming tools are often a means to another end--encouraging programmers to produce the software that will make Windows or the Palm Pre useful and therefore popular, for example.

For a career in software development, JavaScript shouldn't be your first programming language because it isn't a proper foundation.

Microsoft: Learn JavaScript programming language for free with our new course Programmers keen on building browser applications can take advantage of Microsoft's free JavaScript video course.

JavaScript developers can now write IoT software on a large range of devices, including low-specs micro-controllers with as little as 32KB of memory.

Programming language popularity: JavaScript leads – 5 million new developers since 2017 But Python has also gained 2.2 million developers over the past year while Java adds 1.7 million since 2017.

Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript programming language and former CEO of Mozilla, is working on something new — a web browser that will block ads (particularly the kinds that slow performance ...

GitHub's annual Octoverse report reveals the top 10 most popular programming languages in the world.