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.

“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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Node.js Debugging Is Major Pain (source: RisingStack). But the Node-ChakraCore project didn't start out to improve the functionality of Node.js. The original goal was simply to broaden its reach by ...

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 ...

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

The ChakraCore JavaScript engine just experienced a, uh, major life event. Last week, Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore announced that the Edge browser was going through an extreme makeover, dropping its ...

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 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.

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 ...