Google's V8 engine for running JavaScript programs in Chrome is getting steadily more complex, a big problem for speeding up code, Google's Lars Bak said at Google I/O. Stephen Shankland/CNET ...

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 ...

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 ...

That is where the Javascript JIT or Just-in-Time compiler comes in, which is now a standard feature in almost all Javascript engines used by web browsers, including Chromium's V8 engine.

In iOS 17.4 for the iPhone, browsers like Chrome and Firefox will be able to leave WebKit for their own underlying engines. But that’s only true in the EU.