Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, is championing an effort to thwart the “JavaScript trap,” in which users could unknowingly be running non-free programs in their ...

JavaScript and Java scored high as both most liked and most disliked programming languages in JetBrains’ State of the Developer Ecosystem survey. Perl was far and away the most disliked language.

PayPal reveals that writing server-side software in node.js rather than Java is allowing it to serve web pages more rapidly and simplifying web development. How replacing Java with JavaScript is ...