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 ...

With Sentry Performance Monitoring for PHP, developers can quickly identify performance issues with PHP-based applications and view end-to-end traces to pinpoint issues and surface related errors.

Java and JavaScript are the most popular programming languages by most metrics, in no small part because they're widely taught and allow for rapid and stable development. But JavaScript and Java ...

After more than 18 months of hard graft, Mozilla has finally succeeded in landing a big addition to Firefox's JavaScript engine that, upon initial testing, speeds up the web -- or at least the vast ...

The team behind scripting language PHP has announced PHP version 8.0, a major release that may require developers to review code for any breaking changes. This ...

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 ...

WebAssembly, an effort to diversify language support on the Web and speed up applications, is drawing both applause and skepticism. While an analyst at Ovum is mostly applauding the technology, the ...