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 building internet applications. Brendan Eich, the language's original designer, ...

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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New JavaScript library makes prototyping easy

JavaScript is getting mocked, but in a good way. The JavaScript-based Kakapo.js HTTP mocking library enables developers to replicate back-end logic in a declarative manner in the browser. Thus, apps ...
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Marvell’s Kinoma Create – the JavaScript-powered IoT construction kit – gives developers a connected device prototyping platform for the modern era, because an inspiring ...

“Prototyping digital devices today is still done the way it was 25 years ago—bare green single board computers sitting on a lab bench, tethered to a computer, operated by typing obscure commands into ...

This 30-Year-Old Code Keeps the Internet Running

JavaScript turns 30–and looks back on an astonishing history. What began as a hastily built prototype now dominates almost ...