Private class fields are finally coming to JavaScript with no less than three separate TC39 proposals that define the new capabilities.

JavaScript is a high-level programming language that, according to a 2018 Statista survey is the most used programming language in the world, with a whopping 69% of developers having used it. Because ...

This JavaScript thing might just catch on. The world's most popular programming language is starting to look like a real programming language, with classes, modules, promises and more. There's even a ...

class Song { static label = "Exile"; } The field is then only accessible via the class name, Song.label. Unlike Java, the JavaScript instances do not hold a reference to the shared static variable.

Although the TextEdit element is still using those classes under the hood, they aren't accessible. Instead, you get simple JavaScript wrapper methods that are a lot less functional and powerful.