One of the most impressive features in Google’s open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by a team of specialists in Denmark. Although ...

Following Microsoft announcing it would open-source its Chakra JavaScript engine late last year, the company has done exactly that, uploading it to GitHub today. ChakraCore is a self-contained ...

The WebKit team has been busy. Publicly announcing a brand new JavaScript engine release, amusingly named SquirrelFish Extreme (nicknamed SFX), they're already boasting performance gains twice as fast ...

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Microsoft will open up its Chakra JavaScript engine as an open-source project on GitHub next month. The code repository, called ChakraCore, will include the key components of Chakra engine used for ...

Carakan, intended to be world's fastest JavaScript engine, will be released in as-yet-undetermined version of the Opera browser Opera is working on a JavaScript engine, called Carakan, which is ...

Paving the way for more server-side use of JavaScript, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider Engine Yard has added the Node.js library to its collection of hosted Web application tools. The service, ...

Facebook has released a new open source JavaScript engine, Hermes, to speed up start times for native Android apps built with Facebook's own React Native JavaScript framework. Facebook software ...

Czech antivirus maker Avast has taken the extreme step of disabling a major component of its antivirus product after a security researcher found a dangerous vulnerability that put all of the company's ...

Search engines have made improvements in indexing JavaScript websites. But the question of whether they can properly render JS pages remains muddled. JavaScript and SEO have long been a debated topic ...