JavaScript is a flexible language, allowing for all sorts of styles and programming paradigms. Although this breadth sometimes comes at a cost to readability or consistency across a code base, it ...

The Fable compiler gives developers the opportunity to unite the realms of F# functional programming and JavaScript. In a beta stage of development, Fable leverages F# and uses Babel compilers to ...

Figure 1. Functional JavaScript is available as an ebook (without DRM) from O'Reilly or as a paperback. Anyone who has followed my missives on programming have noted the varied exposure to ...

Immutable.js provides JavaScript with a set of persistent data structures allowing for a functional programming style while using natural syntax familiar to traditional JavaScript developers.

The Resurgence of Functional Programming track at QCon Plus featured several experts describing how functional programming makes developing software a joyful experience. They also told why and how ...

Purely functional programming is a brilliant idea with a misleading name. When people talk about “purely functional programming”, they mean Haskell or something like Haskell. But that’s not ...

The functional programming paradigm, which has been around for decades, has never gone out of style. In this two-part series, we look at Microsoft's implementation, Visual F#.

In most programming language popularity indexes, such as Tiobe, IEEE Spectrum, and PYPL, JavaScript, Java, and Python are the most popular languages.

JavaScript had humble beginnings, emerging in 1995 as a "side-kick scripting language" to Java, which was where all the fancy programming tasks was meant to be done in Java applets.