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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.

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 has traditionally been focused on Google's V8 JavaScript engine, but adding ChakraCore support will allow developers to target more platforms Microsoft on Tuesday submitted a pull request to Node ...

The company is looking for the developer community's help in rewriting the newly dubbed ChakraCore to work on Linux, OS X, and other platforms. Microsoft on Saturday said that it plans to donate the ...

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 ...

Hot on the heels of Microsoft open-sourcing Edge’s ChakraCore JavaScript engine, it’s also submitted a pull request to the Node.js repository. The request contains a fully working version of Node.JS, ...

Who says Microsoft doesn't get open source these days? On January 13, 2016, Microsoft made good its December 2015 promise to open source ChakraCore, the Microsoft Edge JavaScript engine. And, believe ...

Microsoft continues to update its Node-ChakraCore project, which started out to expand the reach of Node.js with an open source branch and then changed direction to improve Node.js functionality such ...