Many programming languages require a compiler to compile them to machine-readable code, but Web browsers can read JavaScript with no compilation required. However ...

Pit is a new open source project that compiles F# to JavaScript. JavaScript is doing so many amazing things that you have to treat it as a first class high-level language, but for many programmings ...

Higgs, an experimental JavaScript engine written in D, uses novel approaches to speed up JavaScript -- and could inspire similar projects An experimental new JavaScript compiler could provide useful ...

The popular open source Babel compiler that makes modern JavaScript compatible with older environments has shipped in version 7 and, with help from Microsoft, now supports TypeScript. Babel, a ...

Firefox has been getting plenty of JavaScript oriented improvements these days. First there was support for asm.js which makes it possible to create really, really fast and complex JavaScript apps.

Fable 3, the latest release of the Fable compiler for writing JavaScript applications with Microsoft’s F# functional language, is now available, offering simpler usage, more readable code, and ...

Today is beta-release day at Mozilla, and the organization is launching new beta versions of Firefox for the desktop and Android. This time around, the desktop version is set to get the most ...

In an effort to keep Firefox competitive with commercial browsers and handle the ever-heavier burden that interactive webpages put on browsers’ scripting engines, Mozilla is working on a new ...