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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 ...

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

How to use JavaScript statements in your programs

Developers use statements to control the overall program flow, including variable declarations, conditional operations, and iterative processes. Here's how to write JavaScript statements. JavaScript ...
InfoWorld

5 ways to use JavaScript promises

Developers use JavaScript promises to model asynchronous operations in web and server-side programs. Here's a quick look at five ways to use promises in your code. Promises are a central mechanism for ...
TechCrunch

Is The Death Of JavaScript Upon Us, Or Is A Universal Language Transformation Underway?

Editor’s note: Péter Halácsy is co-founder and CTO of Prezi. Follow him on Twitter @halacsy. Startups identify with JavaScript. When you’re just starting out, you need to be dynamic. You need to be ...
ZDNet

Mozilla planning to use HTML5 and JavaScript to render PDFs in Firefox

This is really cool, and a really good idea. Mozilla is working on a project that will allow PDF documents to be rendered within the browser using HTML5 and JavaScript as opposed to having to rely on ...