Microsoft’s power move: open sourcing Edge’s Javascript engine

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by Sindy Cator on December 5, 2015 at 2:39 pm

If you’ve been paying attention to Microsoft over the last year, you’ve probably noticed that the company has changed its attitude toward the open-source community in a huge way. In just the past few months the company has open sourced its code editor, Visual Studio’s code building tool, a video standard and more. Today, it’s taking that one leap further and open sourcing ChakraCore, the JavaScript engine behind the new Edge browser included with Windows 10. Chakra is the engine used to execute JavaScript that was developed from scratch in 2008 and has the most compatibility with the ECMAScript 6 standard…