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Microsoft last week revealed that it will release the core components of its Chakra JavaScript engine to open source as ChakraCore. It will be available next month on GitHub under the MIT license.

Moving ahead with plans for its ChakraCore JavaScript engine, Microsoft is developing a standard interface to enable different virtual machines to access the Node.js server-side JavaScript platform.

Node has traditionally been focused on Google's V8 JavaScript engine, but adding ChakraCore support will allow developers to target more platforms Microsoft on Tuesday submitted a pull request to Node ...

If you ever needed a sign that a new era has dawned at Microsoft, this is it: The company announced it is bringing ChakraCore to Linux and OS X. ChakraCore is the main element of the Chakra JavaScript ...

At JSConf in Florida today, Microsoft announced that it is open sourcing Chakra, the JavaScript engine used in its Edge and Internet Explorer browsers. The code will be published to the company's ...

Who says Microsoft doesn't get open source these days? On January 13, 2016, Microsoft made good its December 2015 promise to open source ChakraCore, the Microsoft Edge JavaScript engine. And, believe ...

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Hot on the heels of Microsoft open-sourcing Edge’s ChakraCore JavaScript engine, it’s also submitted a pull request to the Node.js repository. The request contains a fully working version of Node.JS, ...

Chakra and ChakraCore's Multi-tiered Execution Pipeline. (source: Microsoft) Some of those contributions might take ChakraCore to other OSes, as Microsoft said it will make the JavaScript engine cross ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsoft announced it is open-sourcing Chakra, the ...

The technology behind Microsoft's Chakra JavaScript engine will be handed over to the open source community, the company announced on Saturday. Specifically, the company said it will separate the core ...