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Microsoft Edge’s JavaScript Engine ChakraCore is Open Source

Microsoft announced that they will put all the main components of the JavaScript engine powering Microsoft Edge open-source the core components of Chakra as ChakraCore. In January 2016, the package "ChakraCore" should stand ready to GitHub.
JavaScript Engine ChakraCore is Open Source

However chakra comes not only in Edge for use and is even older than the new Microsoft browser. The engine has been developed since 2008 and not only works in Edge, but also drives Universal Apps, Outlook.com and various other Microsoft services. It is located in Redmond convinced that Chakra is the best performing Javascript engine and performs comparisons in the field where you have left with the Edge competition behind.

Chakra offers best-in-class JavaScript execution with the broadest set of ES2015 feature coverage and dependable performance, reliability, and scalability. We expect ChakraCore to be used wherever these factors are important, ranging from cloud-based services to the Internet of Things and beyond. With the help of the open source community Chakra should therefore be even better in the future and also find its way into solutions that do not come from Microsoft itself.

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