Objective-C's stumble cleared the way for JavaScript to become Tiobe's Language of the Year, while PyPL gave the title to Swift When it comes to language popularity, JavaScript had a big 2014, and ...

A newly published paper by Brendan Eich, CEO of Chromium-based browser Brave and the key designer of JavaScript, looks back at two decades of the definitive programming language for the web, browsers ...

Ubiquitous JavaScript and newcomer Swift garnered 2014 programming language of the year honors from respective ranking organizations. The top designations are based on increased popularity or interest ...

Once upon a time, Google’s Dart programming language seemed ready to take on JavaScript as the default language of the web. Google was even going to give it equal billing with JavaScript in its Chrome ...

Redmonk’s programming language rankings for 2015 are out and show a huge growth in popularity for Apple’s new Swift development language. According to the results, Swift went from the 68th most ...

Editor’s note: Péter Halácsy is co-founder and CTO of Prezi. Follow him on Twitter @halacsy. Startups identify with JavaScript. When you’re just starting out, you need to be dynamic. You need to be ...

The latest Programming Language Rankings from the industry watchers at RedMonk offered few surprises this time around. JavaScript topped the list, with Java coming in second. Both languages have held ...

There's now more evidence that Microsoft's language for scaled-up JavaScript, TypeScript, is becoming an essential for developers building for the internet. Developer analyst firm RedMonk last month ...

More than any other programming tool, JavaScript has quite likely had the greatest impact on how individual users interact with the web. From interactivity to visual effects to extended functionality, ...