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Re: ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open

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Post by Cyph0n » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 5:50 PM UTC

masukomi wrote: post #10

nothing says "trust my custom javascript engine" like "I can't figure out how to link to an image" (all their build status icons link to 404s)

I don't see the correlation.

Re: ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open

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Post by nothis » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 5:52 PM UTC

So... how is it? Do people like Edge's JavaScript support?

Re: ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open

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Re: ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open

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Post by DoubleMalt » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 5:52 PM UTC

Even if I'm in danger of stating the obvious, but MS really changed its approach to software.

And it is incredibly great having competition in the JS engine market.

Re: ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open

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Post by csulok » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 5:53 PM UTC

hiteshk_msft wrote: post #4

cjbprime wrote: post #2

(In case anyone thinks this is more amazing than it is: it runs on Windows only right now. But presumably someone will start working on Unix ports shortly.)

Check out the Linux branch :) we are actively working on a port. Disclaimer: Msft employee on chakra

Is Mac support planned? Not really familiar with the internals, so I can't tell if the Linux branch is a generic (enough) branch for Unix and alike.

Re: ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open

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Post by creshal » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 5:54 PM UTC

DoubleMalt wrote: post #14

Even if I'm in danger of stating the obvious, but MS really changed its approach to software. And it is incredibly great having competition in the JS engine market.

Aka, Microsoft is again in the "embrace" stage of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

(Even if its current management has the noblest intentions, who knows how it'll be in two or three years?)

Re: ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open

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Post by School-Cotton » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 5:56 PM UTC

creshal wrote: post #16

DoubleMalt wrote: post #14

Even if I'm in danger of stating the obvious, but MS really changed its approach to software. And it is incredibly great having competition in the JS engine market.

Aka, Microsoft is again in the "embrace" stage of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. (Even if its current management has the noblest intentions, who knows how it'll be in two or three years?)

Do you have anything to back this up other than it being your knee-jerk reaction?

Microsoft's entire leadership has turned over and it's easy to see that their culture is very different from the days you're talking about.

Also, they don't have a monopoly on nearly anything and certainly not on Javascript engines. They couldn't move to the "Extend, Extinguish" phases even if they wanted to.

Re: ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open

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Post by rayiner » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 5:56 PM UTC

Small thing, but nice to see that the API is exposed as C (easy to write bindings for) instead of C++ (near-impossible to write bindings for).

Re: ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open

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Post by brianwawok » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 5:56 PM UTC

dmm wrote: post #5

> Finally, you can also use ChakraCore as the JavaScript engine in Node. This is interesting. You can use it as an alternative to v8 for node.js

What is the advantage of this? What does 1 more JS engine buy us?

Re: ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open

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Post by pookeh » Wed, Jan 13, 2016, 5:58 PM UTC

brianwawok wrote: post #19

dmm wrote: post #5

> Finally, you can also use ChakraCore as the JavaScript engine in Node. This is interesting. You can use it as an alternative to v8 for node.js

What is the advantage of this? What does 1 more JS engine buy us?

Better ES6 support.