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 ...

The latest JavaScript specification standardizes a well-balanced and thoughtful set of features, including the built-in ...

[In case you don't know, in ECMAScript/JavaScript, variables declared with var have global or function-level scope, and variables declared with let have block-level scope.] Lately all the code ...

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 ...

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 ...

TypeScript 1.5, which has been in the hands of beta testers since the end of April, packs bug fixes and a few more features to get it ready to align with the upcoming ECMAScript 6. A beta version of ...

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 ...