XJS is not a new language; it's just a simplified version of JavaScript without unnecessary, confusing, redundant or deprecated constructs, such as async/await, classes, arrow functions, with etc. The ...

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This project benchmarks a RUST-powered Markdown parser (Comrak, compiled to WebASsembly) against two widely-used JavaScript parsers (Markdown-It and Marked) to evaluate perofrmance across a variety of ...

You’re not imagining things: Some JavaScript web apps are quite slow, owing to egregiously high startup, parsing, and data transfer overhead. According to ...