At first, Emscripten sounds like the punch line to a tech joke: a compiler that converts C/C++ code into Asm.js, a subset of JavaScript that can then run via a Web browser or in the Node.js framework.

I have seen the future of mobile development, and its name is React Native. "What if we take the exact same React JavaScript we've been running on Web, and we can use it to power truly native ...

Google has released a new experimental browser plugin that allows web applications to securely run native code on the underlying platform. The plugin, which is called Native Client, is distributed ...

Facebook announced today that its React Native library is now available on Github. The library allows you to build native iOS and Android applications with JavaScript and Facebook’s React library.

Editor’s note: Anders Lassen is the founder and CEO of Fuse, the first native app tool suite for both designers and developers. Facebook just open-sourced its React Native framework for building ...

Visual Studio Code is a great, free, cross-platform, open source code editor with an extensive library of prebuilt extensions for all kinds of useful, add-on functionality. Sometimes, however, you don ...

TypeScript 6.0 is the last release built on the JavaScript codebase. A new --stableTypeOrdering flag lets developers match TypeScript 7.0 behavior. TypeScript 7.0, written in Go, is "extremely close ...