Standards proposal would allow annotations to be checked by external type checkers like TypeScript but treated as comments by the JavaScript engine. Microsoft is backing a proposal to bring optional ...

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 ...

Software vendor Onux tackles the issue of type safety in JavaScript with a language called JS++, or JavaScript++, which checks types at compile time as opposed to runtime. The Onux JS++ compiler ...

Readers of my November 2004 Mac 911 column, who steadfastly cling to versions of Mac OS X prior to 10.3, have discovered that typing javascript:window.print() into Safari’s Address field and pressing ...