Web Development: JavaScript Comes of Age
Back in the day, JavaScript was a tacky interpreted language you used as “glue” when putting together Web pages. When I benchmarked it against C for a scientific computation application in 2005, it came in between 27.7 and 46.9 times slower than code compiled with C.
Well, that was then…. I’ve just completed a series of benchmark tests of JavaScript on platforms which include node.js, Chrome, Chromium, Brave, Firefox, and Apple’s Safari (on both the MacOS X desktop and iOS iPad), and on some of the desktops it runs faster than C and on none of them more than 50% slower.
For Web developers, this is Big Thing. It used to be you’d code your little hacks within Web pages in JavaScript, but then basically re-do them on … Continue reading