At first, Emscripten sounds like the punch line to a tech joke: a compiler that converts C/C++ code into Asm.js, a subset of JavaScript that can then run via a Web browser or in the Node.js framework.

IonMonkey is the name of Mozilla’s new JavaScript JIT compiler, which aims to enable many new optimizations in the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine. InfoQ had a small Q&A with Lead Developer David ...

For Angular, Vue, React and more, just type a few keystrokes to quickly insert a small block of code functionality to speed up your JavaScript development in VS Code.

We looked last week at some of the things that can influence the speed of programming languages and how different approaches to running code can influence program performance. Some work described by ...

The new React compiler is now in production use at Meta. Let's take a look under the hood and see how it works and what it might mean for the future of front-end development. React’s development team ...

Microsoft has created a built-in JavaScript debugger for Visual Studio Code, the wildly popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. That built-in experience comes via vscode-js-debug, a ...