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The growing up of JavaScript is leading to a collision of sorts between the client and the server. Why use one scripting language on the client, and then a different scripting language on the server?

You might think that Linux scripting might only be for wizards. It can save you a lot of time, even if you don't consider yourself a programmer. Taking a little time to learn some basic scripting ...

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

Java developers have historically perceived JavaScript as a toy language, both too lightweight for real programming and too clunky to be of use as a scripting alternative. And yet JavaScript is ...

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages ...

Prominent scripting languages, once viewed as the future of programming by offering ease of use, have slipped in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity. Only Python and JavaScript still ...

JavaScript is still by far the most widely used programming language among developers, and Python has cemented its spot in second place ahead of Java, according to a large survey by developer ...

This interplay exemplifies how JavaScript has evolved beyond its initial implementation as a loosely typed scripting language.