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, ...

Over three decades of development, JavaScript has grown faster, sleeker, more capable, and much more complex. That’s good and bad. It was 30 years ago today, Sgt. JavaScript taught the web to play.

JavaScript is a complex topic that can be extremely difficult to get a handle on. However, it has never been more important to understand it because JavaScript is becoming increasingly prevalent on ...