JavaScript on the JVM is better and faster but not always friendlier with Nashorn, the rebuilt JavaScript interpreter. Martin Heller takes the new Rhino's two command-line script runners for a ...

Nashorn will support the javax.script (JSR 223) API. Support will be provided for invoking Java code from JavaScript and for Java to invoke JavaScript code. This includes direct mapping to JavaBeans.

A new generation of bundler, build, and dependency management tools is making JavaScript development simpler, easier, and faster. Give these seven special tools a try.

JavaScript Coding for a Countdown From 10 to 0. JavaScript is a well-known and widely used scripting language used mostly to write applications for Web pages. You can create hundreds of useful ...

To compose JavaScript scripts, they must be either managed in HTML, concatenated, injected, or manually fetched and evaluated. There is no native facility for scope isolation or dependency management.

Who put this JavaScript in my COBOL? Node.cobol, that’s who Developer of COBOL plugin for Node.js completes the circle.

Scripts can be dangerous, especially when you allow them to run on business computers that contain sensitive information. Google Chrome enables you to stop JavaScript scripts, as well as scripts ...