Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

Why it matters: JavaScript was officially unveiled in 1995 and now powers the overwhelming majority of the modern web, as well as countless server and desktop projects. The language is one of the core ...

A lightning-fast crash course on JavaScript, the world’s most popular programming language. From its 1995 origins as Mocha in Netscape to powering front-end apps, Node.js servers, mobile apps, and ...

Microsoft’s Copilot generative AI is popping up on the web, in mobile apps, in the Edge browser, and especially in Windows. But just what exactly is it? Here’s everything you need to know. I've been ...

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Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now write and run JavaScript code. Today, Anthropic launched a new analysis tool that helps Claude respond with what the company describes as “mathematically precise and ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In programming, just as in life, we are constantly making decisions about what problems we are willing to deal with ...

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 ...