JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web, the standard way of building applications that run inside the browser. Created in the mid-'90s by an engineer at Netscape—the company that first pushed the ...
Google’s Android mobile operating system got some significant performance improvements in version 2.2, codenamed Froyo. A high-performance JIT was introduced in Android’s Dalvik runtime environment ...
Google today announced Octane 2.0, the second iteration of its JavaScript benchmark tool that now features 17 tests. The company says version 2.0 of the Octane Benchmark Suite includes a new focus on ...
Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted from InfoWorld. For more IT news, subscribe to the InfoWorld Daily newsletter. Standardization efforts for the next version of JavaScript have taken a sharp ...
TypeScript, the JavaScript-based language that Microsoft devised to make developing large Web applications easier, reached its version 2.0 milestone today. JavaScript poses certain challenges when ...
Standardization efforts for the next version of JavaScript have taken a sharp turn this month, with some key changes in the Web scripting technology's direction. JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, CTO ...