Node.js and Deno creator Ryan Dahl believes the majority of web services might be simplified by using JavaScript containers, rather than Linux containers. Developers of the Deno JavaScript and ...

During his keynote presentation at OSCON last year, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth described application extensibility as an important enabler of innovation and user empowerment. Citing the Firefox ...

Few would argue the Node.js ecosystem is powerful enough to drive any number of server-side applications and frameworks. But could it also drive an entire operating system consisting of little more ...

Tired of playing around with Android apps in your web browser courtesy of Amazon's virtual machine? Well, thanks to super hero programmer Fabrice Bellard, you can now try your hand at something a ...

JavaScript never seems to get any respect. It's not a real programming language, detractors complain, it's just some script language that runs in the web browser. We're not sure what makes JavaScript ...

Who says Microsoft doesn't get open source these days? On January 13, 2016, Microsoft made good its December 2015 promise to open source ChakraCore, the Microsoft Edge JavaScript engine. And, believe ...

JavaScript, Linux and R were among the most learned technology skills in 2019, according to research from Pluralsight. Drawing on data from its users, as well as from job sites Indeed and Dice, the ...

Ars takes a close look at Seed, a new framework that allows software developers to build GTK+ applications with JavaScript. The popular web scripting language could soon become the dominant ...