CoffeeScript, a simple languages that compiles to JavaScript and aims to make web developers’ lives easier, has just moved to a second major release, one that emphasizes syntax improvements.

Command syntax visually flags operations (methods or functions) which are commands so they stand apart from queries. Since commands are subject to side effects, drawing attention to these unsafe ...

Standards proposal would allow annotations to be checked by external type checkers like TypeScript but treated as comments by the JavaScript engine. Microsoft is backing a proposal to bring optional ...

All JavaScript variables must be identified with unique names. Here are the general rules for constructing names for variables: Names can contain letters, digits, underscores, and dollar signs. Names ...

Print Join the Discussion View in the ACM Digital Library Programming languages have been specified using a wide variety of approaches. Most programming language (PL) specifications are written in ...

Microsoft has backed a proposal to bring optional and erasable type syntax to JavaScript in an effort to make its TypeScript language both faster and easier to use. In a new blog post, the software ...

This proposal aims to enable developers to add type annotations to their JavaScript code, allowing those annotations to be checked by a type checker that is external to JavaScript. At runtime, a ...