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The latest State of JavaScript survey confirms findings from previous editions: Developers like and want static typing for the super-popular programming language. What's more, they're more likely to ...

For many reasons, including those I’ve already covered, JavaScript is a very popular programming language. In fact, according ...

Software vendor Onux tackles the issue of type safety in JavaScript with a language called JS++, or JavaScript++, which checks types at compile time as opposed to runtime. The Onux JS++ compiler ...

A handful of Apple patents have appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. Here’s a summary of each. Patent number 2010053450 is for a system and method for authentication using a shared table and ...

Variables hold a wide variety of information temporarily. The JavaScript data types that can be stored in a variable include: JavaScript variables can hold a few other kinds of data, but these are by ...