This proposal is complete and already merged into ECMA262 specification. See the specification text here. Thanks for help and feedback on this effort from Brendan Eich, Waldemar Horwat, Jaro Sevcik, ...

Converting integer arrays to UTF-16 string: in case you know the exact bit depth ("maximum value") of numbers, you can save them with reduced bit depth to a few UTF-16 code units instead of much ...

A security vulnerability has been disclosed in the popular binary-parser npm library that, if successfully exploited, could result in the execution of arbitrary JavaScript. The vulnerability, tracked ...

Ananyo Bhattacharya is chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences and is the author of The Man from the Future (2021). In the weeks leading up to September 1891, ...

Quantum computers can outperform their classical counterparts at some tasks, but the full scope of their power is unclear. A new quantum algorithm hints at the possibility of far-reaching applications ...