Microsoft continued its historic open source efforts by announcing it will donate the technology behind its Chakra JavaScript engine to the community -- and solicit outside help in making it cross ...

WebAssembly, an effort to diversify language support on the Web and speed up applications, is drawing both applause and skepticism. While an analyst at Ovum is mostly applauding the technology, the ...

The defining characteristic of a really good programmer is laziness. That doesn’t mean stupid or ignorant, though. The really good lazy programmer doesn’t write (then need to debug and test) 100 lines ...