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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An open source Chakra is part of Microsoft's plans for infiltrating a world powered by JavaScript and its friends Microsoft’s plan to open-source its Chakra JavaScript engine has far-reaching ...

Microsoft plans to publish the core components of its "Chakra" JavaScript engine to GitHub under an MIT open source license in January 2016. Company officials announced the plans, which had been ...

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 ...

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 ...

But soon this technology will also be available in Microsoft’s Chakra JavaScript engine in the upcoming Windows 10. As the company today announced, asm.js support has long been one of the top ...

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 ...

“This pull request enables Node.js to optionally use the ChakraCore JavaScript engine,” Guarev Seth, Microsoft principal product manager for Chakra, said in a blog post. “Chakra ...

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 ...