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JavaScript Memory Analyzer in Visual Studio 2012 Identifies Leaks in Windows Store Apps
Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 includes a new JavaScript Memory Analyzer for Windows 8 which identifies potential memory leaks to enable developers to fix their apps before submission to Windows Store.
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Meteor Introduces Tighter NPM Integration, Overhauled Package Management
The Meteor Development Group released Meteor 0.6.0 on April 4th as a major overhaul to its package management system as well as growing NPM package support.
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Dart2js Outperforms Hand-Written JavaScript in DeltaBlue Benchmark
Google released a new version of the Dart2js compiler, whose generated JavaScript code now outperforms hand-written JavaScript in the DeltaBlue benchmark, a commonly used benchmark for benchmarking object-oriented languages.
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Blossom Switches to Dart
In a blog post, Thomas Schranz has announced that his company will be porting their Blossom product, a web-based Kanban board for product teams, to Dart, Google's new web programming language and platform that can be used as a replacement of JavaScript.
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Study: Clojure, CoffeeScript and Haskell Are the Most Expressive General-purpose Languages
According to a study, the most expressive general-purpose languages are Clojure, CoffeeScript and Haskell. The study uses LoC/commit as the measuring unit of expressiveness.
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Git in JavaScript Kickstarter Project Funded in 28 Hours
Tim Caswell, a well-known member of the JavaScript and Node.js communities, came up with the idea to reimplement Git in JavaScript and managed to get the project funded on Kickstarter within 28 hours with over 360 backers. The project is another example of Atwood's Law: "any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."
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Backbone.js 1.0 Released
After 2.5 years of development, version 1.0 of Backbone.js has been released. Backbone.js is the popular JavaScript Model/View library used for many popular single-page web applications, including USA Today, Rdio and Airbnb.
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Edge.js Combines Node.js with .NET
The Edge.js project combines Node.js with the .NET platform. Developers can use C# on Node.js or provide Node.js functionality to C# applications-- allowing them to use the best tool for each task. InfoQ had the opportunity to speak with author Tomasz Janczuk about the project and his future plans.
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Canvas-Based Chart.js Version 0.1 Released
Chart.js, a canvas-driven Javascript charting library, was released under the MIT open source license by Nick Downie on March 17th as an alternative to SVG-based charting libraries.
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PeerJS 0.1.7: A WebRTC Wrapper For P2P In The Browser
Michelle Bu and Eric Zhang announced the release of PeerJS 0.1.7 on March 6th as a wrapper around WebRTC, a W3C initiative meant to facilitate P2P communication in the browser.
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Stripe Open Sources Abba, an A/B Testing Framework
Stripe has open sourced their JavaScript A/B testing framework called Abba.
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Node.js 0.10 Released
The Node.js development team has released version 0.10 of node.js, the Javascript-based platform for building high-performance asynchronous servers. The release features an easier to use module for handling streams, better error handling with domains, and performance improvements. The team also announced that after version 0.10, one more stable release (0.12) will follow before its 1.0 release.
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Grunt 0.4.0 Released: An Emphasis On Modularity
The Grunt team updated their Javascript task runner to version 0.4.0 on February 18th in their ongoing effort to decouple the library into more modular parts.
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Eclipse Orion 2.0 Now Runs Locally on Node.js
Eclipse Orion 2.0 has been recently released with support for Node.js, Projects, more and improved Shell commands, better JavaScript code assist and performance improvements.
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Oracle Updates NetBeans for HTML5
With the latest 7.3 release of NetBeans, Oracle has updated the IDE so developers can more easily build HTML5-based user interfaces for mobile and web applications, with code completion capabilities for HTML, JavaScript, and CSS3, and a new Nashorn-powered JavaScript editor. Netbeans also gains a new stand-alone JPQL editor that allows developers to test JPQL queries directly from the IDE.