A new CDN offering from Cloudflare Inc. enables developers to use edge JavaScript to weave logic into applications. With the Cloudflare Workers tool, developers gain flexibility in how they build ...

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Securely execute Node.js workloads in WebAssembly sandboxes – that is the goal of the new JavaScript runtime Edge.js.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In a highly technical blog post, Microsoft talked about how it was trying to improve the Chakra ...

Microsoft is adding JavaScript performance improvements to the Chakra engine behind the Edge web browser, which will be available for all Windows 10 users as part of the upcoming Anniversary Update.

Who says Microsoft doesn't get open source these days? On January 13, 2016, Microsoft made good its December 2015 promise to open source ChakraCore, the Microsoft Edge JavaScript engine. And, believe ...

If you’ve been paying attention to Microsoft over the last year, you’ve probably noticed that the company has changed its attitude toward the open-source community in a huge way. Today, it’s taking ...