Google, Intel, and Mozilla are developing SIMD.js, a JavaScript API for SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) calculations to boost high-performance Web applications. The API introduces new types ...

Instant experiences on the web have become more of a requirement than a preference. The performance of React applications depends heavily on JavaScript bundle size ...

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 ...

Mozilla wants the Web to be a platform that's fit for any purpose. That's why the company is investing in Firefox OS—to fight back against the proliferation of platform-specific smartphone apps—and it ...

After inconspicuously lurking within Web sites' code for more than a decade, JavaScript has emerged to become a key battleground in a second era of Web browser wars. JavaScript, which lets developers ...

JavaScript is a funny little language. Languages which buck trends rarely flourish, and though JavaScript mostly has the syntax and structure of a conventional, C-family programming language, the way ...