JavaScript (JS) is front-end web development: nearly everything you interact with on a website is thanks to this script. Before it, sites were static HTML sites with formatting and no interactivity.

So, which coding language should you learn? If you ask our community of instructors and alumni in the trenches of the tech ecosystem, many of them say JavaScript. From the mouths of experts, here’s ...

Overview: Java is best for large, secure, long-term enterprise systems with a strong type-safe guarantee.JavaScript dominates ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

Overview Programming languages are in demand for cloud, mobile, analytics, and web development, as well as security. Online ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

JavaScript gives you too many ways to shoot yourself in the foot. Just what you’d expect from a programming language that was created in a week. The JavaScript programming language has a lot of ...

If you want a programming job, you better ensure you're proficient in SQL, Python, and Java. That's according to the 2024 IEEE Spectrum Top Programming Languages report, which looks at what employers ...

AI is changing the game for programming languages. According to a new report, Python holds the top spot while JavaScript drops. The reason? "Vibe coding" with AI assistants. Python holds the top spot ...