The Opera web browser could soon get a script execution performance boost from a new JavaScript engine that supports native code generation. The new engine, which is called Carakan, was unveiled ...

VisiCalc co-inventor argues for mobile JavaScript apps over native ones Dan Bricklin, now CTO of Alpha Software, should be a familiar name to just about anyone who knows tech. As the co-developer of ...

At first, Emscripten sounds like the punch line to a tech joke: a compiler that converts C/C++ code into Asm.js, a subset of JavaScript that can then run via a Web browser or in the Node.js framework.

In the quest for ever faster JavaScript, there has been a recurring refrain: why use JavaScript at all? JavaScript engines have been a major focus of browser developers for some years, and the result ...

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Microsoft released TypeScript 6.0 on March 23, the last version built on the original JavaScript codebase, with three post-RC changes and a wave of deprecations designed to ready codebases for the ...

Native code build tools now dominate for TypeScript or JavaScript projects Vite 8.0 has been released, and it uses Rust-built ...

JavaOne Oracle has shipped Java 26, a short-term release, and introduced Project Detroit, which promises faster interop ...

Visual Studio Code is a great, free, cross-platform, open source code editor with an extensive library of prebuilt extensions for all kinds of useful, add-on functionality. Sometimes, however, you don ...