Moving ahead with plans for its ChakraCore JavaScript engine, Microsoft is developing a standard interface to enable different virtual machines to access the Node.js server-side JavaScript platform.

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 ...

“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.

On January 13, 2016, Microsoft made good its December 2015 promise to open source ChakraCore, the Microsoft Edge JavaScript engine. And, believe it or not, Microsoft will also port it to Linux.

Microsoft describes ChakraCore as a fully fledged, self-contained JavaScript virtual machine that can be embedded in derivative products and power applications that need “scriptability” such ...

The V8 engine developed by Google for Chrome has a whole parallel existence on the server, courtesy of the Node.js server-side JavaScript platform. ChakraCore could easily move into a similar space.

Chakra and ChakraCore's Multi-tiered Execution Pipeline. (source: Microsoft) Some of those contributions might take ChakraCore to other OSes, as Microsoft said it will make the JavaScript engine cross ...

Microsoft will release the core components of its 'Chakra' JavaScript engine as open source in January 2016. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor Dec. 5, 2015 at 6:40 a.m. PT ...

Today, it’s taking that one leap further and open sourcing ChakraCore, the JavaScript engine behind the new Edge browser included with Windows 10.

ChakraCore is essentially the same as Chakra, the engine that powers Edge, Microsoft Windows 10’s default browser, with the exception of Windows-specific components, such as the private bindings ...

Microsoft last week revealed that it will release the core components of its Chakra JavaScript engine to open source as ChakraCore.It will be available next month on GitHub under the MIT license.