ECMAScript 2025, the latest version of the ECMA International standard for JavaScript, has been officially approved. The specification standardizes new JavaScript capabilities including JSON modules, ...

The fate of ECMAScript 4 (ES4) appears to be sealed and, according to Brendan Eich, chief technical officer of Mozilla and the creator of JavaScript, so is the rift between the two factions of Ecma's ...

There's a new alternative license for ECMAScript that is designed to be permissive regarding derivative works of a standard. It is largely based on the W3C’s Document and Software License, and one of ...

ECMA International has approved ECMAScript 2026, the latest specification for JavaScript. This is the 17th edition, and it adds methods for arrays, encoding, iterators, JSON, math and maps. ECMA ...

The new release allows CommonJS modules to be called from ECMAScript and provides a more detailed check of return expressions. Microsoft has released TypeScript 5.8. The new version of the programming ...

Microsoft shipped the beta release of TypeScript 4.7, which tackles a "very difficult feature," ECMAScript Module Support in Node.js. The difficulty arises from two different JavaScript module systems ...