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 ...

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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All I want for Christmas is a server-side JavaScript framework

Could 2026 be the year of the beautiful back end? We explore the range of options for server-side JavaScript development, ...

Critical vulnerability in React JS framework has a near 100% chance to be exploited

Researchers have uncovered a critical security flaw that could have catastrophic consequences for web and private cloud ...
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Akamai acquires Fermyon for edge computing as WebAssembly comes of age

Akamai's acquisition of Fermyon could bring more users to Wasm, which is gaining momentum as the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) specification nears standardization.