VisiCalc's legendary co-inventor argues that most developers should write mobile JavaScript apps rather than build apps in native code.

Telerik has opened for public access NativeScript, a framework for creating native cross-platform applications for Android, iOS and Windows Universal.

Facebook already uses React Native to build some of its main apps: Facebook Groups, for example, uses React Native to render many of its views from React’s Javascript into native code.

Facebook has built a JavaScript engine, called Hermes, that improves the performance of React Native applications on Android devices. While the open-source engine is optimized for React Native ...

Can JavaScript really start to rival native code performance? We've been taking a closer look. The quest for faster JavaScript JavaScript performance became a big deal in 2008.

A developer compares hybrid and JavaScript-native mobile app development tools with iOS and Android native dev tools in this podcast.

After reaching a React Native performance impasse while building internal apps, Facebook engineers identified the JavaScript engine as a primary bottleneck, so they created and open sourced their own ...

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 ...

JavaScript creator Brendan Eich included a demonstration of the H.264 decoder—codenamed Broadway—during a presentation at the ACM’s annual OOPSLA conference.