As first announced back in December 2015, Microsoft has now made available key components of the Chakra JavaScript engine available under the MIT License via the ChakraCore GitHub repository.
The new move by Microsoft to make its Chakra JavaScript engine open source will allow the company to develop the key components of the engine in the open offering a fully supported and open-source standalone JavaScript engine.
Watch the video below to learn more about what you can expect to benefit from both now and in the future. Gaurav Seth Principal PM Manager for Chakra at Microsoft explains a little more :
The ChakraCore repository provides a fully supported and open-source standalone JavaScript engine, with the same characteristics as the Microsoft Edge’s Chakra engine, to embed in projects, innovate on top of and contribute back to. We will be accepting community contributions and input to ChakraCore. Once the changes from any pull request have been vetted, our goal is to ensure that all changes find their way to be shipped as a part of the JavaScript engine powering Microsoft Edge and the Universal Windows Platform on Windows 10.
We are also publishing a roadmap for ChakraCore on our GitHub repository. With today’s release, you can build ChakraCore on Windows 7 SP1 or above with Visual Studio 2013 or 2015 with C++ support installed. In the future, we are committed to bringing it to other platforms, starting with Linux, and will keep the roadmap updated with details and status updates as we make progress.
For more details on the new open source Chakra JavaScript engine jump over to the official Microsoft Developer Blog all the official ChakraCore GitHub repository via the links below.
Source: Microsoft