While you can pick up the very basics of JavaScript in a day, becoming truly good at it takes much longer. Think of it like ...

Method and variable handles vs. Java reflection To truly understand MethodHandles and VarHandles —what they do and why they are useful—it’s helpful to know a few things about reflection in Java.

JavaScript variables hold a wide variety of information and can be used with virtually any data type. Here's how to use variables to store numbers, text strings, objects, and more.

Nowadays JavaScript has three different keywords to declare a variable — var, let and, const. Each has its own properties and particularities. Let’s start by making a simple comparison table ...

Microsoft TypeScript: the JavaScript we need, or a solution looking for a problem? New language makes large app development easier, but we've seen it all before.

In C# for instance, closures are implemented by the instantiation of a compiler-generated class which encapsulates a delegate and the variables referenced by the delegate from its declaring scope. In ...