JavaScript is a funny little language. Languages which buck trends rarely flourish, and though JavaScript mostly has the syntax and structure of a conventional, C-family programming language, the way ...

Large JavaScript Web apps can be hard to develop and slow to run. Google’s Dart language may offer a solution to address both of those issues. JavaScript is often used in a way that was never intended ...

JavaScript is said to be getting better, with advances planned in upcoming upgrades to the ECMAScript specification that serves as the basis for the popular dynamic scripting language. But still more ...

JavaScript, the linchpin of scripted websites, is not a perfect programming language. Google prefers its own language, Dart. What's so wrong with JavaScript, and is Google really on the right track?