JavaScript has certainly enjoyed some considerable speed improvements over time, and there was a great leap forward following the introduction of Google’s V8 JavaScript engine about five years ago.

Mozilla’s new Tracemonkey JavaScript engine — released with Firefox 3.5 — put the browser at the top of most page rendering speed tests.

C++ is better than JavaScript if you need to build applications where you must squeeze every single last drop of performance out of a single CPU. i.e. gaming, video editing software, 3D rendering ...

Early JavaScript benchmarks from iPhones running a beta of iPhone OS 3.0 suggest the new version will bring big speed gains to web apps running in Mobile Safari, even on existing iPhone hardware ...

Fable 3, the latest release of the Fable compiler for writing JavaScript applications with Microsoft’s F# functional language, is now available, offering simpler usage, more readable code, and ...

The 4 most hated programming languages: Experts pile on Javascript, C++, and more Your email has been sent "The hate for a language is directly proportional to the popularity, so the most hated ...

Large JavaScript Web apps can be hard to develop and slow to run. Google’s Dart language may offer a solution to address both of those issues. JavaScript is often used in a way that was never ...