Most of us, by now, should have heard of the programming language known as JavaScript. It is quite popular and is mostly used to develop websites. If your web browser doesn’t support JavaScript or an ...

TypeScript is a variation of the popular JavaScript programming language that adds features that are important for enterprise development. In particular, TypeScript is strongly typed—meaning that the ...

JavaScript developers want to have their cake and eat it, too. And why not when you're building browser and native mobile apps with the most popular programming language in the world? "Do we want the ...

One of the most common questions I get from teachers and parents is: What programming language should we use to teach kids to code? Is it important to always start with block-based languages like ...

In June, JavaScript broke into the top 10 of the Tiobe Programming Community Index, a monthly ranking of the popularity of programming languages. JavaScript came in at number 10 (up from 11 a year ...

HackerRank released the 2019 edition of its annual Developer Skills Report and said that Javascript had overtaken Java as the world's most popular programming language. The report was based on ...

Figure 1. Functional JavaScript is available as an ebook (without DRM) from O'Reilly or as a paperback. Anyone who has followed my missives on programming have noted the varied exposure to different ...

There's now more evidence that Microsoft's language for scaled-up JavaScript, TypeScript, is becoming an essential for developers building for the internet. Developer analyst firm RedMonk last month ...

Functions are fundamental to code organization; they exist in all higher order programming languages. Generally, functional programming means using functions to the best effect for creating clean and ...