The open source project Node.js was invented by Joyent software engineer Ryan Dahl three years ago next month. It essentially allows JavaScript to be used outside of a browser. Node leverages ...

Ever wondered how JavaScript was created and how it became the world’s most popular programming language?From its early days ...

JavaScript competitors, however, did not fare as well. “Both CoffeeScript (moving from position 170 to 158) and TypeScript (from 205 to 195) hardly moved upward in 2014,” said Tiobe.

JavaScript had humble beginnings, emerging in 1995 as a "side-kick scripting language" to Java, which was where all the fancy programming tasks was meant to be done in Java applets.