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Developers and programming enthusiasts eagerly await the results of the annual Stack Overflow survey every year. It’s the world’s largest and most comprehensive survey to involve programmers and their preferences. The 2019 edition of this survey touched about 90,000 developers and the results are finally here. In this article, I’ll be particularly focusing on the most popular programming languages […]
The Linux Foundation has announced the formation of OpenJS Foundation to support the JavaScript community. This has been done by merging existing Node.js Foundation and JS Foundation. By combining both these Foundations, The Linux Foundation hopes to support different projects of the JavaScript ecosystem in a better manner. Currently, OpenJS Foundation compromises of 31 open source projects, including Appium, Dojo, jQuery, Node.js, and webpack. On the […]
Short Bytes: The ECMA International has released the eight edition of the ECMAScript Language Specification. Some of the new features supported by this specification are String padding, Object.entries, etc. You can find the complete ECMAScript 2017 specifications on ECMA International’s website. Followed by ECMAScript 2016, the ECMA International has approved ECMAScript 2017, which is the latest […]
Short Bytes: To make the app creation process in JavaScript much easier, Facebook has launched a new tool called Create React App. This open source tool helps one avoid the tussle of configuring the JavaScript environment and eliminates dependencies. So, if you are into writing JavaScript-based apps, this tool could be of great use to […]
Short Bytes: A developer named Yusheng has created an amazing infographic that shows the entire JavaScript language syntax into one single image. Take a look and save it for a quick reminder. What if you had to study one single page to get the complete idea of a programming language? Well, along the similar lines, today […]
The genius minds at Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple are coming together to create WebAssembly (also known as wasm). This is a new binary format – bytecode – to be used in browsers in future and promises about 20 times faster performance. Bytecode is a machine-readable instruction set that is faster for web browser to […]