Variables hold a wide variety of information temporarily. The JavaScript data types that can be stored in a variable include: JavaScript variables can hold a few other kinds of data, but these are by ...

The latest State of JavaScript survey provides an up-close look at the JavaScript language features, tools, libraries, and frameworks developers are using and how they're using them. Getting a ...

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 ...

For all JavaScript’s prominence as the lingua franca of Web development, there are an awful lot of developers who don’t like it a whole lot, and as a result, a great many efforts to produce something ...

This has been a big year for JavaScript. New, fast engines have tested their legs. Libraries have matured. With the ECMAScript 5 draft proposal, the language is growing. However, the language remains ...

Why it matters: JavaScript was officially unveiled in 1995 and now powers the overwhelming majority of the modern web, as well as countless server and desktop projects. The language is one of the core ...