Being able to browse the site is obviously top of the list, but if you're building an e-commerce site, making the checkout process JavaScript-dependent would be silly as it could cost you sales.

Where JavaScript is flexible, dynamically typed, and delivered through human-readable source code, WebAssembly is high-speed, strongly typed, and delivered via a compact binary format.

Today Microsoft released a developer preview of TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like programming language that is translated into JavaScript so that its apps can be run in any browser. The language ...

With Javascript being the mess that it is I doubt it would be a good starting language, it has too much idiosyncrasies. vasco on news.ycombinator.com Deep in the weeds.

Originally for Python only, Kite has added a JavaScript-trained machine learning model to its add-on for popular code editors and IDEs Kite, maker of an AI-powered auto-complete programming tool ...