In the quest for ever faster JavaScript, there has been a recurring refrain: why use JavaScript at all? JavaScript engines have been a major focus of browser developers for some years, and the result ...

Attackers can hide their attempts to execute malicious code by inserting commands into the machine code stored in memory by the software interpreters used by many programming languages, such as ...

Microsoft has joined the Bytecode Alliance, a group aiming to expand WebAssembly beyond the browser and JavaScript to native applications for desktop and mobile platforms. The Bytecode Alliance, ...

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In the last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official acceptance in the ...