A game developer encountered performance issues in a small RPG he created, and his explanation of the results of his investigation into the cause became a hot topic. Initially, he had no idea what the ...

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Note, this article deals with client-side JavaScript. For a client and server-side JavaScript ...

We want to avoid superfluous recalculation of world areas: Fixed tiles' world areas never change. Only when objects move, rotate or scale does their world area change. When a level moves, all tiles, ...

Oracle this week asked the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to partially dismiss a challenge to its JavaScript trademark. The move has been criticized as an attempt to either stall or water down ...

The latest State of JavaScript survey provides an up-close look at the JavaScript language features, tools, libraries, and frameworks developers are using and how they're using them. Getting a ...

JavaScript is the number one most essential high-income technical skill you can have in your toolkit as a developer You wouldn't be a developer without knowing ...

JavaScript is one of the most successful and versatile programming languages in the world, but it certainly didn’t start out that way. Here are 11 ways that JavaScript today is nothing like the ...

Using objects with a sprite or uvquad component. Objects are really handy when you need to assign specific behavior and/or want to reuse components, but they come at a cost. Objects are good for units ...