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Apple's WebKit JavaScriptCore is now a "triple tier virtual machine," offering the potential for 2-2.5 times faster JavaScript performance in Safari. Recent changes in Apple's WebKit open source ...

Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by ...

Adafruit has this week announced the arrival of the Espruino Pico to their store priced at $24.95 and takes the form of a tiny board that has an STM32 microcontroller pre-programmed with Espruino. The ...

As a language, JavaScript receives more than its fair share of criticism. Its default global variables, prototypical inheritance, and dynamic typing are often considered flaws that can lead to sloppy ...

Nashorn, pronounced “nass-horn,” is German for “rhinoceros,” and it’s one of the animal names for a German tank destroyer used in World War II. It’s also the name of the replacement — introduced with ...