JavaScript – Lawrence Hecht

July 27, 2024February 1, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article, The New Stack

Salary Pressures, Not AI, Vex Developers, Says Stack Overflow

Professional developers’ adoption of AI tools in the development process has risen rapidly, going from 44% in 2023 to 62% in 2024.

July 21, 2017January 31, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, The New Stack

JavaScript Inflection Point vs Java

With Node.js’s use on the server side, comparing JavaScript and Java is no longer apples vs oranges. With that context, it is noteworthy that last year the number of npm (Javascript) packages downloaded surpassed components in the maven (Java) components. According to Sonatype’s 2017 State of […]

April 7, 2017February 1, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, The New Stack

React vs. Angular Take 2

React is a library with Facebook roots. Angular is a Google-spawned framework. There is abundant analysis comparing them and, in general, it shows that Angular trails, with Vue.js getting significant buzz. Yet, since AngularJS 2 was a significant rewrite, you should not conflate declining use of the original Angular with […]

March 24, 2017January 31, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, The New Stack

TypeScript, TypeScript, TypeScript

We’ve been actively covering TypeScript but it wasn’t until recently that we saw stats showing just how popular it is. Stack Overflow added this JavaScript superset to its Developer Survey 2017, and boom — it is being used by 9.5 percent of developers, making it the ninth most used language […]