John Resig of jQuery fame outlines why Khan Academy decided to offer JavaScript as their first computer language. With video, of course.

"The hate for a language is directly proportional to the popularity, so the most hated also tends to be the most popular or the most threatening," said VMware's director of engineering.

JavaScript remains the most used programming language among developers, but Python is the most studied – and Go the one that most coders want to switch to.

What just happened? For the first time in more than 20 years, the Python programming language has overtaken Java, JavaScript, and C as the most popular language.

New research shows Microsoft TypeScript's popularity is rocketing and that nearly all JavaScript developers are worried about open-source security.

Ubiquitous JavaScript and newcomer Swift garnered 2014 programming language of the year honors from respective ranking organizations.

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

It turns out that, depending on how you rank programming languages, JavaScript may indeed be ranked higher and may even be the top language these days. The Tiobe index is based on search queries ...

Industry analyst firm RedMonk published today its latest quarterly programming language popularity ranking. JavaScript came out on top, followed closely by Java, PHP, and Python. The rankings are ...

The list of languages compiling to JavaScript is about to welcome newcomer Imba, a speedy language for the Web. Currently in a late-beta stage, Imba is the brainchild of developer Sindre ...