The Closure Compiler is a tool for making JavaScript download and run faster. It is a true compiler for JavaScript. Instead of compiling from a source language to machine code, it compiles from ...

A fresh wave of phishing emails is exploiting a blind spot in enterprise email security tools — one that most organizations have not closed — by disguising executable JavaScript inside SVG image files ...

Node.js has released updates to fix what it described as a critical security issue impacting "virtually every production Node.js app" that, if successfully exploited, could trigger a denial-of-service ...

JavaScript is a sprawling and ever-changing behemoth, and may be the single-most connective piece of web technology. From AI to functional programming, from the client to the server, here are nine ...

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TypeScript 5.9 has reached the release candidate (RC) stage with enhancements for modern module behavior, hover tooltips, and deferred module evaluation. Microsoft announced the RC on July 25, ahead ...

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ...

Microsoft shipped TypeScript 5.8 with improved type checking in some scenarios, but thorny problems caused the dev team to delay related work to the next release. The plan was for TypeScript 5.8 to ...

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JavaScript continues to evolve, with a nice batch of new features added in ECMAScript 14. Here's what's new for JavaScript developers this year. The wheel of time has carved out another year, and with ...