Carakan (pronounced Tsharakan) is now 2.5 times faster than Futhark, the JavaScript engine in the Opera 10 browser. It could be even faster when ready, the company said.

Modules compiled for one version of Node.js would then run on later versions with no need to recompile. The N-API effort also aims to ease support of multiple back-end JavaScript engines.

Javet, a fusion of Java and V8 (JAVa + V + EighT), has recently released its version 3.0.2, marking a significant advancement in embedding Node.js and V8 in Java. This version includes Node.js v20.10.

Although pundits have joked that Java’s “write once, run everywhere” slogan might be better expressed as “write once, debug everywhere,” a relative of Java — JavaScrip ...

However, it is set to get even faster with the new Javascript rendering engine interpreter that the Webkit group says is 1.6 times faster than WebKit s previous interpreter.

Sun has created a collection of scripting engines on its website, and Java SE 6 includes a preconfigured version of Mozilla’s open-source Rhino JavaScript engine.