Microsoft starts to open source its JavaScript engine Chakra

Microsoft today announced plans to open source the core components of Chakra, the company’s JavaScript engine used in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer. The project, dubbed ChakraCore, will be released on GitHub in January (although initially it will be Windows-only). Aside from Microsoft’s browsers, Chakra also helps power Azure DocumentDB, Cortana, Outlook.com, TypeScript, Node.js in […]...