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 ...

Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer ...

In the past two columns, we’ve looked at higher-order functions and talked a little bit about the power of functional programming. So far, the concepts we’ve covered do little to indicate how ...

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 ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

Javascript has multiple libraries implementing functional paradigms. Rust, a relative newcomer in the systems programming world, boasts many functional features.

JavaScript is now the world's most popular programming language, even though it started off as a side-kick to Java.

Asynchronous programming in JavaScript leverages features like callbacks, promises and async/await to sidestep this issue by allowing other code to run in the meantime.

Facebook went with a novel programming methodology, called functional programming, to update the News Feed for its Apple iOS client, which helped considerably in tuning and debugging the app ...