Standards proposal would allow annotations to be checked by external type checkers like TypeScript but treated as comments by the JavaScript engine.

JavaScript variables hold a wide variety of information and can be used with virtually any data type. Here's how to use variables to store numbers, text strings, objects, and more.

Microsoft's open-source programming language TypeScript – the alter ego of JavaScript but with a type system – turns 10 years old this December. It's grown to become a go-to language for ...

JavaScript Typing Unlike strongly typed programming languages such as C#, JavaScript is loosely typed and allows you to assign any data type to a variable without giving the variable a specific type.

Arrays are wonderful and a very particular type in JavaScript. There are many useful built-in properties and methods that will help you resolve any task which involves this kind of type. Today, we ...

Microsoft has backed a proposal to bring optional and erasable type syntax to JavaScript in an effort to make its TypeScript language both faster and easier to use. In a new blog post, the ...

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 ...

Here's a partnership that may come as a surprise to many: Microsoft and Google are working together to help make Angular 2 -- the next (and somewhat controversial) version of Google's JavaScript ...

Version 9.0 of MySQL comes with major new features: The innovation release offers JavaScript functions for SQL and a vector type for AI friends.