JavaScript is a sprawling and ever-changing behemoth, and may be the single-most connective piece of web technology. From AI ...

Any time you’re writing code, it means the code is going to be doing work for you. Many times, the burden of that work is transparent to us and our users. When it does make itself apparent, we have a ...

JavaScript has become an indispensable tool in the world of web development. As websites and web applications continue to grow in complexity, developers are constantly seeking ways to elevate their ...

Figure 1. Functional JavaScript is available as an ebook (without DRM) from O'Reilly or as a paperback. Anyone who has followed my missives on programming have noted the varied exposure to different ...

Most of the discussions we have in the software industry today revolve around developer productivity: How do we make it possible for fewer developers to produce more software in less time? Reducing ...

Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer of ...

In a new step to make the Web a more powerful foundation for programs, Google is releasing Closure Tools that it says produce faster, better code. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Facebook went with a novel programming methodology, called functional programming, to update the News Feed for its Apple iOS client, which helped considerably in tuning and debugging the app.

JavaScript remains the most used programming language among developers, but Python is the most studied – and Go the one that most coders want to switch to. According to a survey of developers by ...