Today Microsoft released a developer preview of TypeScript, a new JavaScript-like programming language that is translated into JavaScript so that its apps can be run in any browser. The language ...

The beta open source Joy compiler takes on the same task as GopherJS: to bring Go language approaches to JavaScript development Developers wanting to use the Google Go language, aka Golang, for ...

Startup Kite has expanded its AI-powered code-completion product beyond Python to JavaScript, the most widely used programming language. It's also launched a new paid-for version of Kite for ...

Mozilla’s Rust language — approaching a 1.0 milestone — is being used to create a new browser engine and JavaScript compiler called Servo that benefits from the safety and inherent ...

IonMonkey is the name of Mozilla’s new JavaScript JIT compiler, which aims to enable many new optimizations in the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine. InfoQ had a small Q&A with Lead Developer David ...

JavaScript is still by far the most widely used programming language among developers, and Python has cemented its spot in second place ahead of Java, according to a large survey by developer ...

JavaScript is a dynamic language that excels at being the glue of the web, and that shouldn’t change. Business logic needs to work, and it needs to work correctly.

I feel the need JavaScript's wide usage has produced great pressure to make the language faster. Google's Chrome was the first browser to really tout JavaScript performance as a feature, and its ...

“I see JavaScript as the modern equivalent of BASIC. …because of its simplicity, it is a great language for learning fundamental programming concepts.” Greg Brown ...