Microsoft’s JavaScript engine Chakra is open source software – Heise Newsticker

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The fast JavaScript engine its browser Edge wants passed Microsoft open source community. Apart from Windows to other platforms are supported.

Microsoft will release substantial parts of its JavaScript engine Chakra as open source software. This was announced by Gaurav Seth and Adalberto Foresti with in a blog post at the conference JSConf in the US. The free version is called ChakraCore and be available in a public GitHub repository from January 2016th The two Microsoft employees invite you to participate in the development and adaptation of software.

The open source version should not differ materially from the Edge in the browser. So come about instead of the Component Object Model (COM) is a platform-independent diagnostics API to use. First ChakraCore for Windows will be available, but they wanted to support more platforms and invites the community to proposals

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The JavaScript engine Chakra gets an open source offshoot: ChakraCore should contain all the essential components of the model, including an alternative to the COM API.
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Microsoft’s JavaScript engine emerged from the browser project “Spartan”, which presented the successor to the aged Internet Explorer with Edge. When reacting JavaScript standards and the pace is Chakra against competition from Google and Apple. Seth and Foresti exhibit in her blog post back in particular to the numerous features of the new standard ECMAScript 2015 dominates the Chakra. As field of application of the free engine can be seen especially server applications as cloud services and the Internet of Things. For more details, about the software license will follow in January. (tiw)