When you define and execute a function in JavaScript and Node, the variables that exist around it are available to the function. This simple idea, known as a closure , gives us some serious power.

Node.js is a lean, fast, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that is useful for both servers and desktop applications. Scalability, latency, and throughput are key performance indicators ...

Well, Romanian Web developer Bizău Ionică has developed a way to do just that, creating a COBOL bridge for Node.js, the JavaScript-based cross-platform runtime environment that has become a go ...