Apple, too, has a JavaScript engine — JavaScriptCore (aka “Nitro”) for WebKit — and its most recent set of changes give it a performance boost to rival its industry comrades.

Redmonk’s programming language rankings for 2015 are out and show a huge growth in popularity for Apple’s new Swift development language. According to the results, Swift went from the 68th ...

Mention JavaScript engines at this point, and the big name that comes to mind is Google's V8, the engine that powers not only Google Chrome but Node.js as well.

The first version of the JavaScript runtime to ship with pre-built binaries for Apple Silicon also features Google V8 9.0 and timer functions that return Promises.

The Webkit blog has posted benchmarks on their "next generation" JavaScript interpreter called SquirrelFish Extreme (SFX). SquirrelFish Extreme uses "more advanced techniques" to deliver even ...

Apple is expanding what can be done with Apple Maps, announcing at WWDC 2018 that MapKit JS can be used to embed maps within a website, a function that has been offered by its competition for a ...

Apple has posted two separate documents that may be of interest to Internet developers. One focuses on JavaScript in Mac Web browsers, and the other examines Web services with WebObjects.

iCab was launched two years ago, and brings many more features to iPhones and iPads than the Safari shipped with the device, the article says. The developer Alexander Clauss says he’ll comply with ...