It’s a programming style that rose to prominence with languages like Clojure, Scala, and Elm, but you can get into the functional mindset right within JavaScript.

“With this, I mean not only Web apps, but also Node, mobile, or desktop, with GitHub Electron.” JavaScript developers, meanwhile, get a chance to work with functional programming.

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

Javascript has multiple libraries implementing functional paradigms. Rust, a relative newcomer in the systems programming world, boasts many functional features.

Many other languages can be used for functional programming tasks, however, such as Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Scala, Python and Apple’s recently launched Swift.

Asynchronous programming in JavaScript leverages features like callbacks, promises and async/await to sidestep this issue by allowing other code to run in the meantime.

Programming languages: Why JavaScript developers are choosing TypeScript TypeScript is exploding, say analysts. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer May 8, 2019, 7:05 a.m. PT ...