Microsoft Will Open-Source Its JavaScript Engine

Written by Michael Larabel in Microsoft on 5 December 2015 at 11:01 AM EST. Add A Comment
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Microsoft has announced that in January they will be open-sourcing their JavaScript engine used by their Edge and Internet Explorer web browsers.

Chakra is their JavaScript engine for Edge and IE, which they now intend to develop as an open-source project. ChakraCore will be developed on GitHub alongside the company's open-source .NET code-base and other projects they've opened up recently.

Chakra has been around since Internet Explorer 9 and continues to be used within Windows 10. Chakra supports JIT compilation on x86 and ARM and other modern JavaScript engine features.

It's been a very interesting year at Microsoft with their numerous open-source announcements, porting of various code to Linux, and more.
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