JavaScript performance in Microsoft's upcoming Edge browser for Windows 10 will be much quicker, thanks to its usage of asm.js. Written by Chris Duckett, Contributor May 7, 2015, 7:33 p.m. PT ...

Microsoft says that the JavaScript performance for its new Microsoft Edge web browser is already beating Internet Explorer, Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox in two benchmark tests.

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.

Microsoft has enabled the async/await JavaScript function syntax in a preview build of its Edge browser. The feature is likely to become part of the ES2016 standard and its implementation in browsers ...

Microsoft brings ChakraCore, the main element of the Chakra JavaScript engine used in the Edge browser and Universal Windows Platform, to Linux and OS X.

Microsoft put its new browser to the test in two different benchmarks, Octane 2.0 and Jet Stream. As you can see for yourself from the above screenshot, Edge performed quite well, managing to beat ...

Microsoft announced plans to open-source the JavaScript engine behind its Edge Web browser.

Microsoft has released the JavaScript code for its new Edge browser for Windows 10, and is even planning to port it to Linux.

Microsoft open sources ChakraCore, Windows 10's Edge web browser JavaScript engine. More amazing still, Microsoft will port it to Ubuntu Linux.