“The JavaScript programming language has a long history and is always considered as the ‘ugly duckling’ from a language design point of view.

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

JavaScript is now the world's most popular programming language, even though it started off as a side-kick to Java.

JavaScript creator Brendan Eich charts the programming language's life from Mosaic to Internet Explorer and Chrome.

JavaScript came onto the scene in 1995 as the browser language in Netscape’s Navigator browser and was primarily used to implement simple user interface elements such as menus.

JavaScript is a dynamic language that excels at being the glue of the web, and that shouldn’t change. Business logic needs to work, and it needs to work correctly.

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

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

Beginners need to learn them, but they’re also great brain refreshers for JavaScript veterans. Let’s take a look at the JavaScript language features every developer needs.