December 2025 TIOBE Index recap: Python still leads, C-C# stay tightly grouped, while SQL climbs, R joins the top 10, and ...
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Dynamic languages, most notably Python, are establishing themselves in the enterprise like never before. CIOs should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of Python carefully--and consider that their ...
A zoo on Java island has released photos of Indonesia’s first locally-born giant panda cub. Taman Safari Indonesia says the ...
Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...
JavaScript turns 30—and looks back on an astonishing history. What began as a hastily built prototype now dominates almost ...
Could 2026 be the year of the beautiful back end? We explore the range of options for server-side JavaScript development, ...
“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...
Quirks aside, JS is the most accessible language to learn.
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 ...
It keeps happening.
JavaScript has established itself as a programming language of choice for web applications, thanks in part to a sharp rise in popularity with the launch of native frameworks for building scalable ...
There is a lot of noise around saying – uninstall or disable Java – as it is vulnerable. Studying the topic, I found almost all versions have gone through similar exploits in the past. Sun, and later, ...