Dan Bricklin, now CTO of Alpha Software, should be a familiar name to just about anyone who knows tech. As the co-developer of VisiCalc in 1979, he helped usher in the age of the personal computer. He ...

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 ...

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.

I have seen the future of mobile development, and its name is React Native. "What if we take the exact same React JavaScript we've been running on Web, and we can use it to power truly native ...

Facebook announced today that its React Native library is now available on Github. The library allows you to build native iOS and Android applications with JavaScript and Facebook’s React library.

Mozilla has just rolled out OdinMonkey, a new module for Firefox's JavaScript engine that promises to speed up JavaScript execution beyond your wildest dreams. If you were drawn to Chrome because of ...

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 ...

According to the Emscripten documentation, code generated by the compiler typically runs about 10 times slower than the equivalent binary that you would get by compiling the same C code with the -O3 ...

We’re often asked about the differences between the native JavaScript 3D frameworks and the WebGL version of the popular game engine Unity. To answer this question, I used the official Unity3D manual ...

You may think that you already know the answer the question posed in the headline, but some recent research by Mozilla might surprise you. Mozilla has a lot riding on the success of its mobile ...