Microsoft Open-Sources Its JavaScript Engine Chakra (windows.com)

An anonymous reader writes: As promised, Microsoft has open-sourced the core components of Chakra, the company's JavaScript engine used in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer. The project, dubbed ChakraCore, has been released under the MIT License on GitHub. The official blog post reads in part: "The ChakraCore repository provides a fully supported and open-source standalone JavaScript engine, with the same characteristics as the Microsoft Edge’s Chakra engine, to embed in projects, innovate on top of and contribute back to. We will be accepting community contributions and input to ChakraCore. Once the changes from any pull request have been vetted, our goal is to ensure that all changes find their way to be shipped as a part of the JavaScript engine powering Microsoft Edge and the Universal Windows Platform on Windows 10."

Comments

Re:"with the same characteristics"

[TheRaven64]

Not that there is much use to this

It's MIT licensed and they're upstreaming patches to make Node.js work with it. They're also working on cross-platform support. Oh, and Microsoft has a history of being a lot better than Google at maintaining stable APIs (and ABIs). V8 has a nasty habit of breaking everything that's not Chromium by changing public APIs that everyone relies on. If this works well and becomes cross platform, I can see a lot of utility in it.

Re:"with the same characteristics"

[DuckDodgers]

At the very least, a monoculture for anything is bad. So any competitors to V8 are good, especially open source competitors.