This is not to say that the IE9 JavaScript engine is a slouch. Microsoft is revamping its JavaScript engine for the IE 9 release, making a number of changes that should speed performance.

“Any modern JavaScript Engine must deliver on a performance envelope that goes beyond browser scenarios, encompassing everything from small-footprint devices for IoT applications, all the way up ...

The V8 engine developed by Google for Chrome has a whole parallel existence on the server, courtesy of the Node.js server-side JavaScript platform. ChakraCore could easily move into a similar space.

Microsoft Gaurav Seth, principal program manager lead at Microsoft, announces at the JSConf US Last Call conference on Friday that the Chakra JavaScript engine will be an open source project. In a ...

Opera announced its answer to the JavaScript engine race Monday. The JavaScript engine is in its early stages, but promises to improve JavaScript processing performance in the Opera browser ...

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ECMAScript ...

Microsoft wrote the Chakra JavaScript engine from scratch, using the most current Java technologies to give Edge a major performance boost over the aging Internet Explorer line. At the JSConf show ...