Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source

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Post by clarle » Sat, Dec 05, 2015, 2:48 PM UTC

Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source
blogs.windows.com

Re: Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source

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Post by sdegutis » Sat, Dec 05, 2015, 3:06 PM UTC

Wow. They're really serious about changing their philosophy aren't they. Using Github for their stuff, making and open sourcing Visual Studio Code, other stuff I can't remember, and now this.

Re: Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source

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Post by gtirloni » Sat, Dec 05, 2015, 3:09 PM UTC

Edge is certainly much faster than Chrome/Firefox for JS processing that I wish I could use it on Linux. Looks like that might be happening. Really great news.

I didn't know Node.js could use anything but v8. This is also very nice.

Re: Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Sat, Dec 05, 2015, 3:09 PM UTC

Wow, I'll admit that I haven't been looking at Edge simply because of the IE stigma, but this blog post impressed me. 90% ES6 support? More so than Babel? Awesome. And it's getting open sourced! I hope to see it ported to the Unixes. Perhaps Servo+Chakra could be a thing?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Dec 05, 2015, 3:09 PM UTC

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Post by Inthenameofmine » Sat, Dec 05, 2015, 3:09 PM UTC

sdegutis wrote: post #2

Wow. They're really serious about changing their philosophy aren't they. Using Github for their stuff, making and open sourcing Visual Studio Code, other stuff I can't remember, and now this.

If they go full SaaS I would not be surprized if they go Open Source on Windows itself, seriously. I think for that to happen Nadella needs one big win/turnaround and the shareholders might be on board.

Re: Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source

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Post by outside1234 » Sat, Dec 05, 2015, 3:10 PM UTC

sdegutis wrote: post #2

Wow. They're really serious about changing their philosophy aren't they. Using Github for their stuff, making and open sourcing Visual Studio Code, other stuff I can't remember, and now this.

I was literally blown away by Visual Studio Code. It is an amazing editor. I haven't opened sublime since.

Re: Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source

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Post by miralabs » Sat, Dec 05, 2015, 3:10 PM UTC

I wonder if in the future node will enable swappable js engine edit: ok just found this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9534138

Re: Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source

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Post by adrianlmm » Sat, Dec 05, 2015, 3:11 PM UTC

I'd like to see Node.js using Chkara by default, V8 developers have showed that they don't care much about Node.js, they are more interested in Chrome, and MS have showed more interest in Node.js than Google and I'm sure it will be better for all, fingers crossed.

Re: Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source

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Post by oblio » Sat, Dec 05, 2015, 3:13 PM UTC

I have a somewhat off topic question: is there anything in the design of Javascript that mandates single-threadedness? Could any Javascript engine implement threads?

I'm asking because I'm wondering if Node.js's evented approach is the only way to do things.