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Google Proposes StrongMode and SoundScript, Boosting V8 Performance
Google's Chrome team has proposed two extensions to JavaScript in a move to boost the performance of their V8 JavaScript Engine. StrongMode will limit the JavaScript language to only allow parts with guaranteed performance. SoundScript will add user-facing types to JavaScript, not at compile-time, but at run-time in the browser.
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Firefox Developer Edition Brings 64-bit Windows Builds
64-bit builds for Firefox Developer Edition are now available for the first time on Windows. Plans for the builds were announced back in November 2014, when Mozilla first released details of their developer edition browser. Firefox Developer Edition 38 also brings fresh support for Ruby, with CSS Ruby enabled by default, and support of HTML5 ruby tags.
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Creating Mobile Native Apps in JavaScript with NativeScript
Telerik has opened for public access NativeScript, a framework for creating native cross-platform applications for Android, iOS and Windows Universal.
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Angular 2.0 Concerns Addressed at ng-conf 2015
Addressing a crowd of developers eager to know what will happen with Angular 2.0, core team members took the stage at ng-conf to allay some fears. From migration paths, language development, and release dates, much was covered to allay the community's fears.
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Flipboard Pushing Boundaries With Its Web Version Release
Recently, Flipboard has released the web version of its social-network aggregation magazine-format reader. This release aims to bring to the browser the same reading experience users have on Flipboard native applications. To accomplish it, the team responsible for the development had to push boundaries in web technologies to match its native apps counterparts.
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Microsoft Shares Details on Spartan Rendering Engine
Microsoft has provided new information on the reasoning behind the switch to a brand new rendering engine for Project Spartan, the web browser shipping with Windows 10. The new engine is a fork of Trident and eliminates swathes of code that have been in place for 20 years.
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Node.js Fork JXcore Goes Open Source
Node.js fork JXcore has gone entirely open source this week. Oguz Bastemar, CTO for the company behind JXcore, announced the news saying "We want JXcore to be a community driven open-source and open-governance project." JXcore's latest release also features a multiple JavaScript engine design, including a wrapper for both SpiderMonkey and V8 engines.
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Both IE and Chrome Are to Support asm.js
The modern.IE Platform Status indicates that now asm.js is in Development. According to Microsoft, the Chakra engine in Windows 10 will support asm.js, and Microsoft has been collaborating with Mozilla to implement it faster. Chrome is going to support it via TurboFan, a new optimizing compiler for V8.
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Industry Heavy Hitters Establish Node.js Foundation with Joyent
Heavy hitters IBM, Paypal, Microsoft and The Linux Foundation have joined with Node.js stewards Joyent to set up the Node.js Foundation. The announcement follows the first significant Node.js release since 2013, and the 1.0 release of io.js, the Node.js fork.
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6to5 JavaScript Transpiler Changes Name to Babel
The JavaScript transpiler 6to5 has changed its name to Babel in an attempt to better represent the functionality and goals of the project. While the original 6to5 name was appropriate, the functionality gains by the library have reduced the name's relevance.
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Microsoft Open Sources TouchDevelop Containing 160K LoC
Microsoft has open source their research project TouchDevelop, which contains about 160K lines of code mostly written in TypeScript.
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Twitter Unveils Digits Login for Web
Twitter has officially released Digits Login for Web, the latest interaction of Digits that extends the SMS-based login system to mobile app's sites powered by Digits.
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Node.js Releases Version 0.12
Node.js has released version 0.12, its first significant release since 2013's 0.10. The much-anticipated version 0.12, once described as "imminent" in January 2014, comes with a raft of Module and JS API changes, an updated version of V8, and many debugging enhancements. Significantly, it also comes with initial support for ECMAScript Internationalization API 1.0 (ECMA-402).
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Is.js Offers Simple Way to Check Data
The micro-check library is.js offers JavaScript developers a quick way to check data for type conformance, regexp matching, arithmetic comparison, and more.
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CoffeeScript 1.9 is Available, Introduces Generators Support
CoffeeScript 1.9 has finally introduced support for long awaited generators, which promise to prevent callback hell and help writing async code.