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Microsoft Asks Node.js To Allow ChakraCore (Edge) Alongside Google's V8 Engine (softpedia.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the add-please dept.

campuscodi writes: Microsoft has submitted an official pull request to the Node.js project, through which it's asking the project's maintainers to enable support for ChakraCore, the JavaScript engine packed inside Microsoft's Edge browser, as an alternative to Node's built-in V8 engine, developed by Google. Earlier in December 2015, Microsoft open-sourced ChakraCore. Microsoft has also been one of the biggest companies to adopt Node.js early on, and is also part of the Node.js Foundation's Board o Directors. The main reason to add ChakraCore support in Node.js will help the IoT version of Windows 10 to run JS apps on IoT devices, just like Samsung is also thinking about.

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  1. Embrace and Extend by mr.dreadful · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why would this be beneficial to anyone but microsoft?

  2. Re:But why? by Pseudonym · · Score: 5, Insightful

    V8 is already cross platform and open source, what is the need to have alternative engines?

    We've been here before. What's the point of Linux when we already have 386BSD?

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  3. don't support engines, OS's and devices by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    support standards instead.

  4. Re:Mafia by bluescrn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't Google the scarier massive corporation these days?

    There's more choice of OS than ever (if you consider mobile, too) - but Google have a lot of power over huge aspects of the Internet that Microsoft has very little influence over

  5. Re:But why? by Z00L00K · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think that Microsoft needs to get their engine spread more than what Node.js needs the Microsoft engine.

    However I also see a danger here - if Microsoft gets their engine as default into Node.js then they can change the licensing terms and effectively block Node.js from being viable. This has happened before, and will happen again. It smells like bait.

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