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Yep. They're kicking everyone's asses in ES6 feature coverage. All the more impressive when you consider how they came from behind. http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/ I's almost sad that Edge is not cross-platform.
Engineer on the Chakra team here. As the blog post says, we are definitely interested in going cross-platform. Which platforms would you be interested in seeing first?
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?
> Perhaps Servo+Chakra could be a thing? Sounds like a lot of work (not to say it's not possible or interesting). Our bindings code[1] is pretty complicated already. It depends highly on how Chakra deals with things internally -- if it's similar to SpiderMonkey; I'd be interested in having a look. Might become a fun project :) Without a reference open source DOM implementation (which we have for SM -- Firefox's DOM),…
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Engineer on the Chakra team here. As the blog post says, we are definitely interested in going cross-platform. Which platforms would you be interested in seeing first?
Nodejs-Webkit or Electron should support Chakra engine as well.
Wait, Edge does better on ES6 coverage than both Chrome and Firefox? Microsoft have seriously stepped up their game, especially seeing as it's now neck and neck for performance with Chrome: http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/10/browser-benchmark-battle-s...
With the first few versions they were playing catch-up, but if I recall correctly, IE 4 and IE 5 actually had more features and better standards compliance than the current Netscape versions, as did IE 6 at its launch.
"IE hell" started once Microsoft won the race.
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Yep. They're kicking everyone's asses in ES6 feature coverage. All the more impressive when you consider how they came from behind. http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/ I's almost sad that Edge is not cross-platform.
Does it run under Mono?
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Servo is a rendering engine written in Rust, why would it choose Chakra, which is written in C++, over WebKit, which is written in C++?
You're comparing apples and oranges here. Rendering engines (all in C++ except Servo): - Servo - Blink (Chrome/Opera) - Trident/Spartan (IE/Edge) - Webkit (Safari) JS engines: - Spidermonkey (used by Servo and Firefox) - Chakra (used by Trident/Edge) - V8 (used by Blink, also by Node) Servo already uses a JS engine in C++ because a Rust JS engine is a huge undertaking in itself (see [1]) It does make sense to try out…
Wait, Edge does better on ES6 coverage than both Chrome and Firefox? Microsoft have seriously stepped up their game, especially seeing as it's now neck and neck for performance with Chrome: http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/10/browser-benchmark-battle-s...
Well, historically, when Microsoft was still in competition-mode, Internet Explorer was kicking Netscape's ass with the later versions. With the first few versions they were playing catch-up, but if I recall correctly, IE 4 and IE 5 actually had more features and better standards compliance than the current Netscape versions, as did IE 6 at its launch. "IE hell" started once Microsoft won the race.
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.
I'm not sure where the hangup is, but I've found that Edge is fast as hell for initial page startup, but lags behind quite a lot when under heavy load. I've seen the benchmarks but in my experience it just... lags... For example, on the kangax ES6 compatibility table [1]. On chrome clicking a column takes less than a second, on Edge (i'm on an up-to-date Windows 10 machine, no preview stuff) it loads faster than in c…
Think about it, Microsoft really wants bing to succeed, for it to happen, Edge has to succeed so I'm sure they are putting their best minds behind it. Its a matter of time.
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> Perhaps Servo+Chakra could be a thing? Sounds like a lot of work (not to say it's not possible or interesting). Our bindings code[1] is pretty complicated already. It depends highly on how Chakra deals with things internally -- if it's similar to SpiderMonkey; I'd be interested in having a look. Might become a fun project :) Without a reference open source DOM implementation (which we have for SM -- Firefox's DOM),…
Engineer on Chakra here- are these the docs you're looking for? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249552(v=vs.94).a...
(I'm guessing this would be at least the milionth time they hear about it :) )