Tag: JavaScript
Cloudflare previews workerd, an open source JavaScript/Wasm runtime for ‘nanoservices’
Cloudflare has released workerd in beta, an open-source JavaScript/Wasm (WebAssembly) runtime based on the same code as Cloudflare […]
Meta releases MemLab JavaScript memory leak detector as open source
Meta, the company behind Facebook, has open sourced MemLab, a tool for finding memory leaks in JavaScript applications […]
Preact JavaScript framework gets Signals: a better way to manage state?
The Preact team has introduced a new feature called Signals, claiming that it is “a better way to […]
Deno team promises npm compatibility and ‘fastest JavaScript runtime web server ever built’
Deno, created by Ryan Dahl who is the original author of Node.js, will get easy import of npm […]
TypeScript 4.8 is now a Release Candidate, fixes ‘early foot-gun for JavaScript developers’
The next version of TypeScript, 4.8, is now at Release Candidate stage. “Between now and the stable release […]
Astro web framework 1.0 released: a route back to multi-page applications
The Astro team has released version 1.0, noting that organisations which already have some deployments built with this […]
‘The best thing we can do today to JavaScript is to retire it,’ says JSON creator Douglas Crockford
JavaScript, the world’s most popular programming language according to most surveys, has become a barrier to progress, according […]
Microsoft previews new Teams Development toolkit for Visual Studio
Microsoft has released Preview 3 of Visual Studio 2022 17.3, including a major update to its Teams Toolkit […]
Zig-based Bun appears in beta: ‘An incredibly fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime’
A new JavaScript/TypeScript runtime called Bun promises exceptional performance, with its own benchmarks showing three times more HTTP […]
Uno Platform 4.4 arrives with WebAssembly threading and exceptions ahead of .NET 7
Uno Platform, a cross-platform framework for .NET development, has released version 4.4 with greatly improved WebAssembly support, along […]