The TC39 committee at EMCA International, responsible for developing the ECMAScript specification that provides the basis for JavaScript, is working on parallel versions of ECMAScript — versions 6 and ...

One drawback of living on the cutting edge is it can be lonely. Web developers realized this long ago with different browsers supporting different aspects of web standards, which have led to so many ...

When Opera's current ECMAScript engine, called Futhark, was first released in a public version, it was the fastest engine on the market. That engine was developed to minimize code footprint and memory ...

[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.] Need a global variable?

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for building internet applications. Brendan Eich, the language's original designer, ...