As the government demands global tech firms like Cloudflare bend to its will, critics say it's 'burning the rice barn to kill ...

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for building internet applications. Brendan Eich, the language's original designer, ...

JavaScript turns 30–and looks back on an astonishing history. What began as a hastily built prototype now dominates almost ...

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“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...

Azul, the only company 100% focused on Java, today announced the successful closing of its previously announced majority strategic investment from Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm. This ...

To arrive at a language late is to see it without the forgiving haze of sentimentality that comes with imprinting—the fond willingness to overlook a flaw as a quirk. What I saw ...

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