Web developers can use the OCaml language to write JavaScript code through the BuckleScript compiler, which has now gone to a 1.0 release. Open-sourced by news services provider Bloomberg, ...

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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 ...

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In an effort to keep Firefox competitive with commercial browsers and handle the ever-heavier burden that interactive webpages put on browsers’ scripting engines, Mozilla is working on a new ...

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 ...