Bun, an all-in-one JavaScript runtime with enhanced performance, is now available in beta release. Designed to compete with Node.js and Deno, Bun features a native bundler for combining multiple ...

A sizable portion of the Hackaday audience groans and runs their eyes when some new-fangled Javascript thing comes out. So what makes Bun different? Bun is a runtime (like Node or Deno)t that offers a ...

The makers of the widely used JavaScript server-side runtime, Node.js, have released Deno 1.0, a new runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that addresses “design mistakes” in Node.js. The Deno ...

As the Wasmer team explains the reasons behind the new runtime, Node.js has two difficulties: it is tied to V8 as the only JavaScript engine and cannot securely execute workloads without ...

The beta V8 Version 7.4 is now available, with the potential to expand the engine’s footprint to platforms such as Apple iOS. V8 is Google’s open source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine for the ...

Amazon has announced the availability, albeit for experimental purposes, of a new JavaScript based runtime called Low Latency Runtime or LLRT for short, to bring JavaScript up to the performance ...

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V8, the JavaScript engine featured in Google’s Chrome browser, is getting improvements in performance and code optimization courtesy of both the V8 team and the Russia Academy of Sciences. For its ...

A new project hopes to beef up the security of V8, a part of the Chrome browser that most users aren’t aware of but that hackers increasingly see as a juicy target. Chrome has over two billion users, ...