In the 2017 report, plain JavaScript (that is, ECMAScript 5), outpaced TypeScript. But ECMAScript 5 was dropped from this year’s report because many ECMAScript 6 features are now supported ...

ECMAScript 5 was finalized this week, and it’s surely cause for celebration. The ECMAScript specification is the root of both JavaScript and Adobe Flash’s ActionScript language, making it one ...

If you’re a developer, you’ve probably heard a little bit about ECMAScript 6 (ES6) already, though at first glance it might seem a little confusing. What it really boils down to is this: it ...

TypeScript 5.0 enables “extends” to take multiple fields. There are also new features that better support EcmaScript module (ESM) projects in Node and in bundlers, such as the ...

Microsoft has released TypeScript 5.8. The new version of the programming language brings improved interoperability of CommonJS modules with the newer ECMAScript modules, which should simplify the ...

Converting to JavaScript and Supporting ECMAScript 5 Properties. Ideally, in the same way that you never look at the intermediate language (IL) code generated from your C# and Visual Basic code, it ...

For all JavaScript's prominence as the lingua franca of Web development, there are an awful lot of developers who don't like it a whole lot, and as a result, a great many efforts to produce ...