During his keynote presentation at OSCON last year, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth described application extensibility as an important enabler of innovation and user empowerment. Citing the Firefox ...

JavaScript never seems to get any respect. It's not a real programming language, detractors complain, it's just some script language that runs in the web browser. We're not sure what makes JavaScript ...

Few would argue the Node.js ecosystem is powerful enough to drive any number of server-side applications and frameworks. But could it also drive an entire operating system consisting of little more ...

Node.js and Deno creator Ryan Dahl believes the majority of web services might be simplified by using JavaScript containers, rather than Linux containers. Developers of the Deno JavaScript and ...

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, Linux and R were among the most learned technology skills in 2019, according to research from Pluralsight. Drawing on data from its users, as well as from job sites Indeed and Dice, the ...

If you ever needed a sign that a new era has dawned at Microsoft, this is it: The company announced it is bringing ChakraCore to Linux and OS X. ChakraCore is the main element of the Chakra JavaScript ...

Who says Microsoft doesn't get open source these days? On January 13, 2016, Microsoft made good its December 2015 promise to open source ChakraCore, the Microsoft Edge JavaScript engine. And, believe ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. It’s pretty easy to run a batch file on Windows. Just create a file, change the extension to ...