According to JavaScript creator Brendan Eich — who was also caught by surprise with the NPM incident — the standard library that exists in JavaScript is kept intentionally small, because of ...

Now that the library is open source, developers can use it to build and design Windows-like Web applications for other browsers and platforms, including Chrome, Firefox, Android, and iOS.

After about a year of percolating, Microsoft officially announced general availability of the Windows Library for JavaScript version 3.0. News came via a blog post on the Windows blog home page from ...