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The JavaScript method, Array.map(f) is a pure function in that it takes a function as a parameter. That last point about pure functions warrants further exploration. First-order functions vs. pure ...
JavaScript is a programming language used to make websites interactive and dynamic. Features such as buttons that respond to ...
JavaScript is the go-to language for front-end development and has spawned Microsoft's Typescript, a superset of JavaScript with a stronger optional type system for developers that compiles to ...
MySQL is not the first open-source relational database supporting Javascript in stored routines, with PLV8 being the most popular Javascript language extension for PostgreSQL.
I’ll concede that JavaScript can be considered an Object Oriented language, I just don’t think it’s a good example of one. Especially as your first exposure.
A newly published paper by Brendan Eich, CEO of Chromium-based browser Brave and the key designer of JavaScript, looks back at two decades of the definitive programming language for the web ...
‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order ...
John Resig of jQuery fame outlines why Khan Academy decided to offer JavaScript as their first computer language. With video, of course.
JavaScript is the most-used programming language, according to JetBrains’ State of Developer Ecosystem Report 2024. But the languages with the most promising growth prospects are TypeScript ...