Microsoft Releases Its JavaScript Engine As Open Source 'ChakraCore'

[Lucian Armasu]

Microsoft open sourced its JavaScript engine under the name "ChakraCore" and urged developers to contribute to it so we can can all use a faster web.

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[kenjitamura]

Microsoft seems to be making good on its promises to embrace open source software.

Hard to believe this was the same company that just until a few years ago abducted little girls, raped them, murdered them, cannibalized their remains, and then proceeded to harass the parents with packages of their body parts and creepy phone calls. ... Oh wait, that was Tsutomu Miyazaki? It's so hard to tell them apart sometimes.

 

[cst1992]

@kenjitamura

LOL, although I agree that open source is the way to go. I am waiting for the day when they release Windows as open source, although that may be a pipe dream. Or the switch of gaming to Linux(hey, if Crysis can run on Ubuntu, others can, too!)

 

[f-14]

and it especially includes a zero privacy policy and 100% exploitable

 

[cst1992]

The beauty of open source is that anyone can just cut all that crap right out.
That's the debugger's word of truth:
"The code never lies".

 

[dE_logics]

Their 'plans' to make it cross platform will remain plans forever as with .NET.