In an open letter published September 16, Node.js and Deno creator Ryan Dahl, JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, and several other leading members of the JavaScript community have accused Oracle of ...

In a nutshell: JavaScript is about to become a matter of legal proceedings between competing parties. Oracle claims ownership of the trademark, but the company will now have to defend its questionable ...

A hot potato: JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages in the world and a cornerstone of the modern web. JavaScript is also "owned" by Oracle. However, that could soon change with ...

The Linux Foundation has announced the birth of the JS Foundation, which aims to provide technical governance and mentoring to a range of JavaScript-focused open-source development projects.

GitHub's acquisition this week of NPM Inc., a prominent player in the JavaScript ecosystem, has sparked both worry and welcome from users of the ubiquitous programming language. The company hosts Node ...

The annual State of JavaScript survey is one of the best ways to keep your finger on the pulse of what's new and noteworthy in the world of JavaScript. Here's the rundown from the most recent survey.

Salesforce.com has attracted one million developers to its platform and is now making a push into the mobile market with a new hybrid environment that allows developers to use JavaScript to update ...

The technology behind Microsoft's Chakra JavaScript engine will be handed over to the open source community, the company announced on Saturday. Specifically, the company said it will separate the core ...

Cloudflare today announced that it’s collaborating with Deno, the development company behind the eponymous Deno runtime, and individual contributors of the Node.js open source project to create ...