Over 25% of malicious JavaScript code is obfuscated by so-called ‘packers’, a software packaging method that has given attackers a way of evading signature-based detection, according to security and ...

Some people still seem surprised that JavaScript is regarded as a respectable, grown-up programming language for serious applications. In fact, JavaScript development has been maturing nicely for ...

Startup Kite has expanded its AI-powered code-completion product beyond Python to JavaScript, the most widely used programming language. It’s also launched a new paid-for version of Kite for Python ...

Javascript, being an interpreted language, can modify its own code as it runs. Self-modifying code can be dangerous but you should know about it and how it works. If you would like to experiment, read ...

Dittytoy user [srtuss] has recreated one of the most influential works of electronic music in an elegant nineteen kilobytes of Javascript code. The recreation of Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygene Part IV on ...

The JS++ platform also adds modules and backs a multitude of code editors, including Visual Studio Code and GitHub Atom With an upgrade this week to its type-safe JS++ programming language, Onux is ...

Could malicious backdoors be hiding in your code, that otherwise appears perfectly clean to the human eye and text editors alike? A security researcher has shed light on how invisible characters can ...

Webpack is a popular module bundler among JavaScript developers. It takes the large collection of JavaScript modules in your application as input and bundles them into one or several JS files that you ...

A little over a year ago, as the Covid-19 lockdowns were beginning to fan out across the globe, most folks grasped for toilet paper and canned food. The thing I reached for: a search function. The ...