JavaScript
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JavaScript is a programming language primarily used for web development, with active tooling innovation including Google's JSIR intermediate representation for advanced analysis and widespread use as a compilation target for AI-assisted code porting.
Gleam gets source maps, 1.16.0
Gleam v1.16.0 adds source maps for JavaScript, letting developers trace errors and breakpoints back to original Gleam code rather than generated JS—plus 30% faster string pattern matching and improved compiler fault tolerance.
GitHub Actions for a Gleam monorepo
Gleam monorepos can validate against multiple runtimes (BEAM and JavaScript) efficiently by decomposing packages and orchestrating GitHub Actions workflows to test each target independently.
Lumina – a statically typed web-native language for JavaScript and WASM
Statically-typed Lumina language bridges JavaScript and WebAssembly with Hindley-Milner type inference, targeting reactive UIs and WebGPU workloads in a single type-safe system.
JSIR: A High-Level IR for JavaScript
Google open-sources JSIR, an MLIR-backed intermediate representation enabling advanced control-flow and dataflow analysis for JavaScript transformations while preserving full AST information.
You can't cancel a JavaScript promise (except sometimes you can)
Inngest circumvents JavaScript's lack of native promise cancellation by returning never-resolving promises, enabling fine-grained control flow in serverless workflows.