Oracle announced via JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 355 that the Nashorn JavaScript Engine may soon be deprecated and eventually removed from all future Java Development Kits (JDKs). With the rapid ...

Nashorn, pronounced “nass-horn,” is German for “rhinoceros,” and it’s one of the animal names for a German tank destroyer used in World War II. It’s also the name of the replacement — introduced with ...

The technology is planned for 2013's Java SE 8 and offers a big performance boost over the present Rhino engine Oracle’s Project Nashorn is focused on developing a JavaScript engine for the company’s ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from Stripe, shares his experience in building a testing system based on ...

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 anywhere ...

Many people assume just because JavaScript has “Java” in its name that the two are somehow related. Although most programmers will roll their eyes at this confusion, the history of the two programming ...

eSpeaks host Corey Noles sits down with Qualcomm's Craig Tellalian to explore a workplace computing transformation: the rise of AI-ready PCs. Matt Hillary, VP of Security and CISO at Drata, details ...

The WebKit team has been busy. Publicly announcing a brand new JavaScript engine release, amusingly named SquirrelFish Extreme (nicknamed SFX), they're already boasting performance gains twice as fast ...

Java and JavaScript are the most popular programming languages by most metrics, in no small part because they're widely taught and allow for rapid and stable development. But JavaScript and Java ...

When Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer (IE) 9, one of the key new components of that browser was its JavaScript engine, codenamed "Chakra." Chakra is still alive and well in IE10, and will be ...