JavaScript is the most popular language on GitHub

14 December 2011
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Most popular language on GitHub is the one powering the Universal Runtime

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Dart, Google's JavaScript killer

10 October 2011. 1 minute read.
Dart, Google's JavaScript killerSo, Google finally announced Dart, their JavaScript killer. Initial reactions from the hacker community seem quite unimpressed.

JavaScript is the Assembly Language for the Web

20 July 2011. 1 minute read.
So now JS is the x86 assembler of the web - not as pretty as it might be, but it gets the job done (GWT is the most hilarious case in point). It would be a classic case of worse is better except that Java only looked better from the bottom up. Meanwhile JS turned out to be pretty awesome.—Nick...