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 Opera web browser could soon get a script execution performance boost from a new JavaScript engine that supports native code generation. The new engine, which is called Carakan, was unveiled ...

Although Chrome's performance beats the current stable version of Firefox, benchmarks show that Mozilla's next-generation JavaScript engine actually outperforms V8.

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.

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

This is not to say that the IE9 JavaScript engine is a slouch. Microsoft is revamping its JavaScript engine for the IE 9 release, making a number of changes that should speed performance.