For example, using closures along with higher-order functions used to be the only way we could have “private” or tamper-proof variables in JavaScript: let protectedObject = (function() { ...

Version 2 also features support for async functions syntax, the future object destructuring syntax, and JSX, which is JavaScript with interspersed XML elements.

Microsoft announced an ambitious project to inject type syntax into ECMAScript, the official JavaScript standard. While that might sound an awful lot like TypeScript, it's different. The company is ...