To this end, we’ve been experimenting at Airbnb with “Isomorphic JavaScript” apps, which are JavaScript applications that can run both on the client-side and the server-side.

To help users avoid running proprietary JavaScript, the Free Software Foundation developed LibreJS, a plugin for the Firefox web browser that blocks most, but not all, JavaScript from running.

We all remember Silverlight, Microsoft’s answer to Adobe’s Flash. The remnant of an ambitious plan to have .Net code running everywhere, it mixed the familiar C# and XAML with browsers. The ...

However, although these in-app browsers are based on Safari’s WebKit on iOS, developers can modify them to run their own JavaScript code. As a result, users are more susceptible to being tracked ...

Bun creator Jarred Sumner told me, “We want to make JavaScript faster to run and simpler to write. An important part of that is ecosystem compatibility. Bun is designed as a drop-in Node.js ...