Towards a Safer JavaScript

As programs become large, their complexity also grows. Bugs become harder to track down, mistakes easier to make. What if we could make small parts of our application more predictable? What if we could start to create fewer places where bugs originate? By… Read more

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JavaScript: The First 20 Years

How a sidekick scripting language for Java, created at Netscape in a ten-day hack, ships first as a de facto Web standard and eventually becomes the world’s most widely used programming language. This paper tells the story of the creation, design, evoluti... (more…)

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Fixing JavaScript’s Date

I’ve been off the blog for a while, which has to do with a lot of things going on in my life. That said, I’m happy to report that I’m back with stories about a big project –… (more…)

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