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Great timing. I just showed my kids some of the things you can do with this on the Circuit Playground Bluefruit[1] earlier today. It comes with a lot of sensors and is full of poss…

Nice overview of jq! You may want to say demonstration rather than illustration though. I liked jq but liked json, a similar npm package, a little bit better for simple tasks. You …

I felt the same until I finally broke down and did it. Basically, if you want to use ES6 (or ES7) features and are targeting an environment that might not have native support (brow…

You can decouple now. Set the TypeScript output target to ES6 and then pass it all through BabelJS. It works really well for me and the TypeScript tooling is really good (VS Code o…

Thanks. Gives a nice overview of when things came about. A few more that you might consider: CoffeeScript, TypeScript, BrightScript, Nim, Vala, XSL, awk, sed Also, there is a nice …

I think explicit languages can make things more clear however disagree with the notion that implicit behaviors are necessarily a bad thing. I've found that the hybrid approach in t…