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Microsoft Asks Node.js To Allow ChakraCore (Edge) Alongside Google's V8 Engine (softpedia.com)
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.
Because this is Microsoft. You can claim that it's the new underdog Microsoft. You can claim that they have an engineer-CEO. But the culture is the same as it ever was. I know this intimately.
This is a company who repeatedly have themselves back door advantages in visual studio. This is a company that intentionally de-expedited core functions in development frameworks intended for third party developers. This is a company who built IE to favor Microsoft's own products *even at the cost of extreme security issues*.
If you think that there has been some fundamental shift in culture, you are seriously mistaken. I want nothing to do with their code.
They trashed their own reputation long ago.