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Companies are racing to find programmers capable of coding for ML and deep learning but, as Googlers Nikhil Thorat and Daniel Smilkov point out, “the development of ML systems is often restricted to those with computational resources and the technical expertise to work with commonly available ML libraries.” Enter deeplearn.js, an open source JavaScript library for machine learning.

JavaScript is a powerful and dynamic language, but not everyone can remember everything all the time. Even the best need to check their references every once in a while. In this article, Sohel Ather goes back to the basics for a JavaScript cheat sheet that’s useful for beginners as well as experts. Plus, some of the best JavaScript plugins from 2017!

Sometimes, you need to convert your Java programming into JavaScript. In this article, Kayla Matthews explains how you can save time with the CheerjP tool to convert Java into JavaScript, just like that!

Sometimes, regular spreadsheets just don’t cut it. Enter Mesh, a JavaScript IDE that’s built to feel like working in a spreadsheet for people constrained by Excel’s limitations.

What’s cooking in the Java world? Plenty, actually. Java 9 is coming in September, Jigsaw has finally its approval and our Java influencers are offering us some valuable insight into the future of this programming languages. In this 3-part interview series, we shed some light on where Java is headed to and what language is a worthy opponent.

Cheat sheets are a godsend when you don’t know something – and that will happen no matter how well-prepared you are, which is why these cheat sheets might come in handy. And since we’re here to learn more about programming languages, why not dive deeper into the JVM universe? It will be fun, I promise.

Our programming pub quiz series is back. This week, we’re testing your knowledge about JavaScript. Do you know everything there is to know about this old favorite?

Stanford’s famous introductory course for programming has just dropped Java in favor of JavaScript. Is this a sign of the end times for our favorite programming language?

Coding at night? It’s probably not in JavaScript. The data scientists over at Stack Overflow have done a deep dive and discovered when certain programming languages are used. Surprisingly, not a whole lot of people are asking questions on Stack at 5am. Who knew?

Prettier may have started as an experiment but the wins of automated formatting have convinced quite a few people to give it a try. The 1.0 version of this JavaScript formatter is here and it comes bearing gifts.

In this post, Joy Clark, a consultant at innoQ claims that we don’t need JavaScript if we have a fundamental understanding of HTML forms and HTTP and explains how an HTML form works.

Maintenance is a thankless task, but it’s necessary to keep the internet running. Researchers from Northeastern have discovered shocking vulnerabilities in JavaScript libraries, leaving your code open to malware.

What is CSSX and how does it work? Why are developers already enchanted by the perspectives it offers? Rajiv Patil, co-founder of Nimblechapps, explains why CSSX is slowly becoming a buzzword. The only downside — it may take some time to get used to it.

Packt has just released its Skill Up 2016 survey report and it appears that the modern tech community is pretty clear about where their interest lies this year: JavaScript, Angular, the Internet of Things and machine learning, among others.