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.

are being touted as a possible alternative to vanilla JavaScript. Each is designed to help the performance of code running in the browser get closer to that of native code: compiled machine code ...

The beta open source Joy compiler takes on the same task ... With Joy, idiomatic Go code will be translated into JavaScript that will work in every browser (as ECMAScript 3 code, with ECMAScript ...

open source tool deck.js, you can create an elegant set of slides that can run in any browser either online or off. All it takes is minimal knowledge of basic HTML, and we've created a starter kit ...

WebAssembly was created to perform the highly complex and overwhelmingly sophisticated computations that push JavaScript beyond its browser-based capabilities. It is invoked by JavaScript whenever a ...

Mozilla is working on a new JavaScript just-in-time (JIT) compiler architecture for Firefox’s SpiderMonkey script engine that will significantly boost the browser’s performance. Called ...