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Hadi Hariri, Leader Developer Advocacy team at JetBrains, outlines in this BASTA! TV interview with Mirko Schrempp, Editor Windows Developer, why he is changing constantly between the Java and .NET world.

A new version of TypeScript has been unveiled with long awaited support for async functions for ECMAScript 6 (ES6). Future support plans are already in place for ES3 and ES5, too. TypeScript 1.7 also includes polymorphic this typing plus some breaking changes.

WordPress, or more appropriately its codebase, doesn’t necessarily enjoy the best reputation amongst developers. That opinion might change with the debut of their new JavaScript-based interface Calypso, noted as lighting fast and now available as open source.

The JavaScript ecosystem is still messed up and JDK 9 modularity is real. Geertjan Wielenga reports on the key takeaways for Java programmers at the recent Devoxx 2015 conference in Antwerp.

What’s so special about Angular 2.0? Is the migration to the new Angular release still going to be a nightmare? And why do we all have to learn TypeScript now? AngularJS author Manfred Steyer answers the most common questions of the Angular community.

If you can keep up with a fast-paced upgrade schedule and want access to new features sooner, then the release of Node.js 5.0 is right up your alley. The team behind the JavaScript-based runtime environment have now unveiled two release lines.

New JavaScript library Vue.js has reached milestone 1.0.0, with creator Evan You insipired by the Google-sponsored project Polymer. Vue.js has been described as a set of optional tools that work together really well for frontend developers.

Kotlin 1.0 is now available in beta mode after 14 milestone releases. JetBrains’ JVM language, developed over a period of four years, packs in Java interoperability, changes to the language itself as well as IDE improvements. Test it now!

Google again reassures the community about the longevity of the Angular 1 series, while announcing new details of the next generation, among them Angular Universal and a new tool called angular-cli.

The new Node.js 4.2 release has been christened “Argon”, the first drop under the new Long Term Support plan that provides various levels of support over a 30 month period. The plan aims to help operations teams and enterprise application development.

nginx, the company behind the popular open source web server, have unveiled a new JavaScript-based configuration language and a working prototype of a JavaScript VM. A lot of developers are asking the same question with the release: “What’s the point?”

Typescript is now available in version 1.6. The latest drop of Microsoft’s JavaScript extension brings about a handful of improvements, including support for React/JSX, the ability to write class expressions and new features in the Type system.

Three months after the Node.js Foundation started work on a new release candidate, Node.js 4.0.0 has been released – now featuring the io.js fork code base for the very first time.

Want to put your jQuery skills to the test? Whether you’re asking or being asked, these are the kinds of questions that jQuery developers can expect to be asked in a serious jQuery job interview.