Last August, we told you about a project posted on GitHub by Romanian software developer Bizău Ionică that makes it possible for snips of legacy COBOL code to run within the JavaScript code of the ...

Thousands of applications were broken on Tuesday after a programmer unpublished a critical module in npm, a package manager for widely-used JavaScript projects. Countless projects were left in limbo ...

This isn't the first time a developer deliberately sabotaged their own open-source code. Back in 2016, Azer Koçulu deleted a 17-line npm package called 'left-pad, 'which killed thousands of Node.js ...

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Staying ahead of the curve is no longer a choice. It has become a necessity. As of November 2024, Node.js powers 3.9% of websites globally, according to Web Technology Surveys. That includes giants ...