Apple's WebKit JavaScriptCore is now a "triple tier virtual machine," offering the potential for 2-2.5 times faster JavaScript performance in Safari. Recent changes in Apple's WebKit open source ...

Node.js is a lean, fast, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that is useful for both servers and desktop applications. Scalability, latency, and throughput are key performance indicators for ...

JavaScript was invented in the mid-1990s as a programming language that could run inside a web page and make it interactive, says Kyle Simpson, director of web futures at Getify Solutions, which ...

I will explain what property-based testing (PBT) is and how it solves these problems. What is property-based testing (PBT)? At a very high level, it injects thousands of random values into ...

If you are [Low Level JavaScript], the answer is obvious: You create a 7400 TTL logic simulator in JavaScript. The gate simulations progress from simple gates up to flipflops and registers.

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for building internet applications. Brendan Eich, the language's original designer, ...