JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web, the standard way of building applications that run inside the browser. Created in the mid-'90s by an engineer at Netscape—the company that first pushed the ...

Google’s Android mobile operating system got some significant performance improvements in version 2.2, codenamed Froyo. A high-performance JIT was introduced in Android’s Dalvik runtime environment ...

Google today announced Octane 2.0, the second iteration of its JavaScript benchmark tool that now features 17 tests. The company says version 2.0 of the Octane Benchmark Suite includes a new focus on ...

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. It was great to see the 2.3 release of JavaServer Faces finalized last week. When JSF 2.0 came ...

Nashorn, pronounced “nass-horn,” is German for “rhinoceros,” and it’s one of the animal names for a German tank destroyer used in World War II. It’s also the name of the replacement — introduced with ...