The rising popularity of modular, polyglot application stacks has restarted a conversation at the OSGi Alliance about providing a language and run-time neutral version of the standard.

Microsoft is revamping its TypeScript programming language with a native compiler and toolset. This effort seeks to address performance challenges, especially in large codebases, by porting the ...

Given the choice between native code (e.g., iOS app) and Javascript, native code will win on CPU load/battery drain by a long way, if we're still talking a 2x performance penalty for Javascript.

Agoric, the JavaScript-native smart contract platform, has closed its public token sale, having sold more than $50M of BLD tokens.