For many reasons, including those I’ve already covered, JavaScript is a very popular programming language. In fact, according ...

The latest State of JavaScript survey confirms findings from previous editions: Developers like and want static typing for the super-popular programming language. What's more, they're more likely to ...

“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...

Software vendor Onux tackles the issue of type safety in JavaScript with a language called JS++, or JavaScript++, which checks types at compile time as opposed to runtime. The Onux JS++ compiler ...

With Tuesday’s release of Flow, an open source static type checker, Facebook engineers are continuing their recent efforts to seed the community at large with tools built in-house. “Flow adds static ...

Performing JavaScript addition may seem like a simple task, until you discover the number of different ways you can add them. Mathematical calculations are often critical operations that require ...

A handful of Apple patents have appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. Here’s a summary of each. Patent number 2010053450 is for a system and method for authentication using a shared table and ...

Version 9.0 of MySQL comes with major new features: The innovation release offers JavaScript functions for SQL and a vector type for AI friends. New versions of the MySQL database belonging to Oracle ...