Unlike many other scripting languages, JavaScript's standard library is very slim and doesn't come with very much additional infrastructure. Developers who build GTK+ applications with Seed will ...

First look: Qt 5 makes JavaScript a first-class citizen for app development The community behind the Qt project has issued an alpha release of Qt 5.

With AWT, developers could create graphical applications with windows, buttons, text fields and other UI components. More recently, web development has taken center stage and JavaScript in web ...

Electron is a framework for building desktop applications. Microsoft has been working on "Teams 2.0", which reportedly will move the desktop app off Electron in pursuit of better performance.

Being able to work comfortably on Web-related code elements -- HTML, CSS, and JavaScript -- has become an increasingly important skill for all kinds of software development projects. Web apps, ...

On the desktop, the biggest improvement appears to be an new JavaScript compiler known as IonMonkey, which Moziilla claims will allow web apps and games will run up to 25 percent faster.