Web 2.0 would have been unthinkable without JavaScript, a scripting language used mainly for DOM scripting in web browsers.

While much attention regarding AI has been focused on developers using it to code, the impact of AI on software development goes far beyond code creation tools. Armando Solar-Lezama, Distinguished ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

async/awaitmade asynchronous JavaScript far more readable, but readability isn't the same as control. Once async operations span multiple tasks, layers, or services, managing their coordination ...

Leaked API keys are nothing new, but the scale of the problem in front-end code has been largely a mystery - until now. Intruder’s research team built a new secrets detection method and scanned 5 ...

Rising expectations for rapid responses are draining the life from asynchronous customer support, according to a new study by a global customer support platform for e-commerce brands and online ...

Abstract: Existing works on multi-agent time-varying optimization allow agents to asynchronously communicate and/or compute, but do not allow asynchronous sampling of objectives. Sampling can be ...

Why it matters: JavaScript was officially unveiled in 1995 and now powers the overwhelming majority of the modern web, as well as countless server and desktop projects. The language is one of the core ...

Scheduling a meeting to follow up on incomplete action items from another meeting is the perfect example of a vicious cycle. Effective asynchronous collaboration can help break it. We can’t get our ...

What if AI-assisted development is less of a threat, and more of a jetpack? This month’s report tackles vibe coding, along with new JavaScript tools and techniques to explore in your AI-assisted free ...