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 ...

Microsoft has officially released the latest version of its JavaScript ... 5.0 enables “extends” to take multiple fields. There are also new features that better support EcmaScript module ...

If you’re a developer, you’ve probably heard a little bit about ECMAScript 6 (ES6 ... it’s the next version of JavaScript, which delivers new language features you’ll be able to use ...

However, I solved this by switching to using the compiler from the command line (for background on a compiler feature that's only available from the command line, see "Converting to JavaScript and ...

The new release allows CommonJS modules to be called from ECMAScript and provides a more detailed check of return expressions. Microsoft has released TypeScript 5.8. The new version of the ...

Microsoft has sought to use the syntax currently being considered for ECMAScript 6, the next version of standard JavaScript. Overall, TypeScript looks very conservative. There is limited type ...