Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects. Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed “pragmatic” ...

Node.js is a lean, fast, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that is useful for both servers and desktop applications. Scalability, latency, and throughput are key performance indicators for ...

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“The hate for a language is directly proportional to the popularity, so the most hated also tends to be the most popular or the most threatening,” said VMware’s director of engineering. Each month, ...

At around 5:30PM ET on Tuesday, JavaScript broke. More specifically, npm, the package manager used by most JavaScript developers to source, test, and prepare their code for release, began failing. For ...

If you’re a developer, you’ve probably heard a little bit about ECMAScript 6 (ES6) already, though at first glance it might seem a little confusing. What it really boils down to is this: it’s the next ...

Looks like web compiler is translating our JS in ES5 compatible JS then saving and minifying the ES5 file. That's great, however, it would be nice to not have the .es5 in the minified output filename.