JavaScript web apps and web servers are susceptible to a specific type of vulnerabilities/attacks known as regular expression (regex) denial of service (ReDoS). These vulnerabilities take place when ...

Although it is just three years old, Node.js is gaining traction as an application development platform, letting developers extend JavaScript beyond the browser and into servers. But questions remain ...

The unified JavaScript runtime standard is an idea whose time has come. Here’s an inside look at the movement for server-side JavaScript interoperability.

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They grabbed a copy of the V8 JavaScript engine to speed up their code, then created simple libraries that connected the V8 engine to the TCP/IP ports. Presto change-o, it was answering requests very ...

For years, Douglas Crockford, the high priest of JavaScript (JS), has claimed that it is a powerful, flexible language suited to a multitude of tasks, especially if you can separate it from the ugly ...

Redmonk’s annual programming language rankings – based on GitHub and StackOverflow traffic – were recently released and to no one’s surprise, JavaScript was ranked as the most popular programming ...

A new CDN offering from Cloudflare Inc. enables developers to use edge JavaScript to weave logic into applications. With the Cloudflare Workers tool, developers gain flexibility in how they build ...

Java and JavaScript are entirely different languages despite their similar names. Java is compiled and widely used for ...