Following Microsoft announcing it would open-source its Chakra JavaScript engine late last year, the company has done exactly that, uploading it to GitHub today. ChakraCore is a self-contained ...

As a JavaScript engine, Chakra is one of many industry projects that provide a virtual machine to interpret JavaScript code and execute that code in whatever host it resides in. Chakra was the ...

When Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer (IE) 9, one of the key new components of that browser was its JavaScript engine, codenamed "Chakra." Chakra is still alive and well in IE10, and will be ...

At JSConf in Florida today, Microsoft announced that it is open sourcing Chakra, the JavaScript engine used in its Edge and Internet Explorer browsers. The code will be published to the company's ...

The technology behind Microsoft's Chakra JavaScript engine will be handed over to the open source community, the company announced on Saturday. Specifically, the company said it will separate the ...

In a blog post on the project, Guarav Seth, Microsoft’s principal manager for Chakra, said, “The ChakraCore repository provides a fully supported and open-source standalone JavaScript engine ...

Microsoft will open up its Chakra JavaScript engine as an open-source project on GitHub next month. The code repository, called ChakraCore, will include the key components of Chakra engine used ...

Microsoft on Saturday said that it plans to donate the technology behind its Chakra JavaScript engine to the open source community. Specifically, the company said it will separate the core components ...

for inclusion in Microsoft’s Chakra JavaScript engine. A post in the IEBlog Wednesday says asm.js has been moved to the “In Development” stage at status.modern.ie, noting that support for ...

in its Chakra JavaScript engine. Being a subset of JavaScript, asm.js already runs in Internet Explorer, but as we found in 2013, the performance can be highly variable. In Firefox, which included ...

To solve this problem, Microsoft is allowing Node.js to run with the Chakra JavaScript engine. Chakra is a built-in feature of Windows 10’s operating system, and has been optimized to run on WOA ...

Microsoft intends to release the self-contained parts of its Chakra Javascript engine, used in the Edge web browser that debuted in Windows 10, as open source in January next year. The Javascript ...