While JavaScript might not be the ideal language to write a production compiler, you might enjoy the “Create Your Own Compiler” tutorial that does an annotated walkthrough of “The… ...

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 ...

Emscripten C/C++-to-JavaScript project uses a back-end derived from LLVM for greater speed and a more dedicated compiler. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

As with CoffeeScript, the output of the TypeScript compiler is idiomatic JavaScript. Constructs such as classes and inheritance are translated into JavaScript prototype chains in a manner that ...

If a JavaScript function is called more than six times, or loops more than 100 times, it gets fed into the next stage: a basic JIT compiler that produces executable code.

Google rolled out the latest version of its browser this week with the ability to freeze Tab Groups and have PWAs launch on startup. Under-the-hood, Chrome 91 is 23% faster, thanks to a pair of ...