At the high level of building web applications, low level details of memory management are typically abstracted away from the programmer. While you still need to be aware of the memory needs of your application, using a language like JavaScript means you ... (more…)

JavaScript and C both make you maintain your invariants the most painful way possible. Happily, there are better alternatives these days. (more…)

Private fields are a language feature being added to the JavaScript language through the TC39 proposal process. (more…)

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…)

In this post, I will do my best to explain one of the most fundamental parts of JavaScript: the execution context. (more…)