Babel is a popular JavaScript compiler that has been installed nearly eight million times and claims dozens of high-profile customers, from Facebook to Netflix to Spotify to Yahoo. The new 6.0.0 ...

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.

At first, Emscripten sounds like the punch line to a tech joke: a compiler that converts C/C++ code into Asm.js, a subset of JavaScript that can then run via a Web browser or in the Node.js framework.

Google says its new JavaScript compiler saves 17 years of Chrome users' CPU time each day. It should also benefit all Chromium browsers that use it.

The new JavaScript compiler made its debut in the nightly releases of Firefox 18 in September, but the project had already been underway for a good year at that point.

Both products are Javascript compilers, meaning they enable developers to program in higher level languages and then compile into Javascript. Written by Richard MacManus, Contributor May 30, 2006 ...

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 ...