The popular open source Babel compiler that makes modern JavaScript compatible with older environments has shipped in version 7 and, with help from Microsoft, now supports TypeScript. Babel, a ...

Many programming languages require a compiler to compile them to machine-readable code, but Web browsers can read JavaScript with no compilation required. However ...

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.

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 beta open source Joy compiler takes on the same task as GopherJS: to bring Go language approaches to JavaScript development Developers wanting to use the Google Go language, aka Golang, for web ...