Many programming languages require a compiler to compile them to machine-readable code, but Web browsers can read JavaScript with no compilation required. However ...

Higgs, an experimental JavaScript engine written in D, uses novel approaches to speed up JavaScript -- and could inspire similar projects An experimental new JavaScript compiler could provide useful ...

Most of you use Chrome as a browser, and good news arrives as Google implemented a serious performance enhancement. Starting with revision 91 you'll be able to benefit from an increase of 23 percent ...

Today is beta-release day at Mozilla, and the organization is launching new beta versions of Firefox for the desktop and Android. This time around, the desktop version is set to get the most ...

The popular open source Babel compiler that makes modern JavaScript compatible with older environments has shipped in version 7 and, with help from Microsoft, now supports TypeScript. Babel, a ...

Babel is a popular JavaScript compiler that has been installed nearly eight million times and claims dozens of high-profile customers, from Facebook to Netflix to Spotify to Yahoo. The new 6.0.0 ...

We looked last week at some of the things that can influence the speed of programming languages and how different approaches to running code can influence program performance. Some work described by ...