Chakra JavaScript Engine: Microsoft Open-Sources the Heart of Edge browser
Dec 07, 2015
Microsoft has announced the plans to open source the core components of its " Chakra " – the JavaScript engine behind the new Edge browser – to GitHub code-sharing and collaboration repository next month. The company made this announcement at the JSConf US Last Call conference in Florida this weekend. What is Chakra? " Chakra ," developed in 2008, is a self-contained JavaScript virtual machine that Microsoft now lets developers implement in their own products and applications. Though Chakra is at the core of only Microsoft's Edge, it is used across the Microsoft's newest operating system Windows 10 to power Universal Apps on Xbox, Windows Phone and tablets. Chakra Going Open Source as ChakraCore ChakraCore – is what Microsoft is calling the open source version of its Chakra – will be made available on GitHub under an MIT open source license in January 2016, with support from Intel, AMD, and NodeSource. According to the Microsof...
