JavaScript turns 30: From 10-day prototype to the backbone of the modern web

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...
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Google’s Octane JavaScript Benchmark Targets the Modern Web

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Google has released a new JavaScript benchmark suite known ...

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...
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JavaScript Security Vulnerabilities: Weakness in Web 2.0

A glaring spotlight is now focused on vulnerabilities inherent in a key enabler of the new breed of dynamic Web pages. Demonstrations at last week's annual Black Hat cybersecurity conference employed ...
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Rust and JavaScript interoperability coming via WebAssembly

Mozillas’s goal is to make Rust a web language like JavaScript, for use alongside WebAssembly and JavaScript in web apps Mozilla is working on a bridge between types in JavaScript and the Rust ...
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Master web building with this complete JavaScript coding instruction — only $29

Just try and code a modern web page without JavaScript… you won’t get very far. So if you’re looking to have a career in web development, understand the programming language that drives the web with ...
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What is WebAssembly? The next-generation web platform explained

WebAssembly is a binary instruction format and virtual machine that brings near-native performance to web browser applications, and allows developers to build high-speed web apps in the language of ...