Benchmarking Node’s recent performance enhancements

#​716 — December 12, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Boa v0.20: An Alternative JavaScript Compiler — Under development for several years, Boa has a few missions: be a Rust ECMAScript implementation, be easy to embed in Rust projects, and be a fast, safe JS engine overall. v0.20 sees a bump up to 89.92% …

Oracle engages its lawyers and JavaScript turns 29

#​715 — December 5, 2024 Read on the Web 🗓️ If you missed last week’s issue, don’t worry, it didn’t exist – we took a week off for Thanksgiving! We’re now back all the way through to the Christmas break 🙂__Your editor, Peter Cooper JavaScript™ Weekly Deno v. Oracle: Cancelling the JavaScript Trademark — Did …

Will we care about frameworks in an AI world?

#​713 — November 14, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Component Party: A Rosetta Stone of UI Libraries — A long-standing comparison of many different frameworks (like React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Qwik, Solid.js, etc.) by way of simple code snippets to perform various tasks. Now including Svelte 5 and Angular 17/Renaissance. Mathieu Schimmerling Will We Care …

Node.js v22 Enters Long Term Support (LTS)

On October 29, 2024,* Node.js v22 officially transitioned into *Long Term Support (LTS) with the codename ‘Jod’. For developers and organizations relying on the stability of Node.js for production environments, this transition marks a key milestone for Node.js 22.x, ensuring it will receive critical updates and security support for years to come. Let’s take a …

JSConf is back

#​712 — November 7, 2024 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly JavaScript’s ??= Operator: Default Values Made Simple — The ??= nullish coalescing assignment operator snuck into JavaScript a few years ago via ECMAScript 2021 and has been broadly supported almost everywhere for ages. Trevor shows off how it can tighten up your assignments here. Trevor …