JavaScript’s arrays can hold heterogeneous types, change size on the fly, and readily insert or remove elements. Traditional methods like slice, splice, and push/pop do this by operating on the array ...

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 also ...

JavaScript's functional programming is initially very attractive, but if you slide into using it, you might be shocked at how difficult it is to be "hardline functional". This is an extract from my ...

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 different ...

Ramda is a library of functions designed to make functional programming in JavaScript easy and powerful without making it any less like JavaScript. Ramda - the name is a joke based on lamb-da as in ...

Functional programming languages work on an entirely different level than widely understood procedural and object-oriented programming techniques. The functional language approach is to create ...

Most of the discussions we have in the software industry today revolve around developer productivity: How do we make it possible for fewer developers to produce more software in less time? Reducing ...

Elixir is a functional programming language built on the Erlang virtual machine, BEAM. Its association with Erlang, a language known for its ability to provide fault tolerance and scalability in ...