In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...

JavaScript turns 30: From 10-day prototype to the backbone of the modern web

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...
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In JDK 9, the Java browser plug-in will be a thing of the past

To the uninitiated, it may have seemed like another damning headline from Oracle, intimating another nail in the coffin of the Java programming language. To the informed enthusiasts who have defended ...
InfoWorld

Java’s Simple Web Server: Static HTTP servers made easy

Java 18's Simple Web Server lets you use a command-line tool or API to host files and more. Here's how it works. One of the handiest new features included in the Java 18 release (March 2022) was the ...
TheServerSide

How to solve JavaScript and Java performance issues

Java and JavaScript are the most popular programming languages by most metrics, in no small part because they're widely taught and allow for rapid and stable development. But JavaScript and Java ...
EDN

Java browser

The Escape 4.8 Java browser offers a scaleable configuration that enables developers to selectively disable support for certain Internetstandards. Designers may disable JavaScript or go with a ...
EDN

Java vs JavaScript: differences and similarities

Many people assume just because JavaScript has “Java” in its name that the two are somehow related. Although most programmers will roll their eyes at this confusion, the history of the two programming ...