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 ...

MySQL is not the first open-source relational database supporting Javascript in stored routines, with PLV8 being the most popular Javascript language extension for PostgreSQL.

Python is another popular dynamic language that maps easily to JavaScript. Many of the internal features are similar, and some of the biggest differences are in the syntax.

At the Build 2018 developer conference that's taking place these days in Seattle, USA, Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel.

The JavaScript method, Array.map(f) is a pure function in that it takes a function as a parameter. That last point about pure functions warrants further exploration. First-order functions vs. pure ...

JavaScript is an excellent engine for playing around with dynamically and learning general concepts that apply to many other languages (things like variables, objects, strings, functions, etc ...

JavaScript is the go-to language for front-end development and has spawned Microsoft's Typescript, a superset of JavaScript with a stronger optional type system for developers that compiles to ...

I’ll concede that JavaScript can be considered an Object Oriented language, I just don’t think it’s a good example of one. Especially as your first exposure.