Windows 8 JavaScript code examplesAs seen from the list, JavaScript is a first-class citizen in the Windows 8 world. For example, dealing with Contacts:

Working with streams in JavaScript

Microsoft embraces the Universal RuntimeSimple JS calls like var instance = new Windows.SomeInterface() will be the new way to access Windows APIs, with HTML5 and CSS for rendering.

GObject Introspection (GIR) is a way to create automatic bindings to GNOME libraries for various different programming languages. I’ve written before about the benefits of bringing GIR to PHP, and now it seems something similar is happening on Node.js.

I’m getting worried about Google. Long one of the champions of the open web alongside Mozilla, the rise of social networking silos and the app economy seem to have scared them. And like any scared organism, they lash out.

Implement LDAP servers in JavaScriptI’m quite excited about this. LDAP has always been an interesting protocol, but with rather complicated implementations.

Contract-based CoffeeScriptVery interesting fork of CoffeeScript that allows you to do programming by contract. Simple example which specify that a function takes a number as argument, and also returns a number:

Jison: Building parsers in JavaScriptCoffeeScript, for example, is parsed using Jison.

Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture

There is now a domain-specific language for designing control flows: