While the race to make the fastest browser JavaScript engine continues at a heated pace, Microsoft senior product manager Pete LePage reminded the audience at Microsoft TechEd, held in New Orleans ...

TypeScript 2.3, the latest version of Microsoft’s typed superset of JavaScript, has moved to a release candidate stage. For standards backing, version 2.3 supports async generators and iterators.

Et cetera. JavaScript’s embrace of this very common and practical approach means that many people can switch gears pretty easily between C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Swift, Go, and many others.