Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development — no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...

The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform. Even the traditional Java and Microsoft languages have had to make room for ...

All of this interest is immediately apparent in O’Reilly’s book sales charts, with JavaScript accounting for 57% of scripting-language-related book sales, up from 42% in 2009. It was also one of the ...