Opera is working on a JavaScript engine, called Carakan, which is intended to be the fastest JavaScript engine on the planet, according to Opera. Carakan (pronounced Tsharakan) is now 2.5 times ...

Microsoft announced plans to open-source the JavaScript engine behind its Edge Web browser.

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 ...

One of the most impressive features in Google's open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by a team of specialists in Denmark. Although ...

Facebook has released a new open source JavaScript engine, Hermes, to speed up start times for native Android apps built with Facebook's own React Native JavaScript framework.

The Moddable SDK provides a JavaScript engine for IoT development supporting greater than 99% compliance with the ES2017 specification, starting at less than 32KB.

Search engines have made improvements in indexing JavaScript websites. But the question of whether they can properly render JS pages remains muddled.

Nashorn, the JavaScript engine for Java Virtual Machine, could be deprecated, having been made obsolete by newer technologies. Nashorn debuted in Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 in 2014. It has ...

JaegerMonkey is the new JavaScript engine coming in Firefox 4, and it looks to be as big a jump in performance as TraceMonkey once was (relative to the pre-Chrome days). You can try out ...

Apple has released a public beta of Safari 4, introducing several new end-user features, along with built in developer tools and a new JavaScript engine called Nitro.