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This got downvoted? Lighten up HN, it's a joke. The same comment on DN would have gotten a ton of upvotes, and the coldness of HN's lack of humor makes this place really off-putting.
Everyone here tries hard to look "smart".
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Everyone here tries hard to look "smart".
Yeah, and it's actually really anti-intellectual, since a well adjusted person is capable of both humor-depth and logical-depth understanding among many other things.
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This got downvoted? Lighten up HN, it's a joke. The same comment on DN would have gotten a ton of upvotes, and the coldness of HN's lack of humor makes this place really off-putting.
Excuse my ignorance but what is DN?
Supporting additional JS engines would ultimately lead to a healthier ecosystem and higher quality JS implementations.
This is awesome, but before anyone uses this for something real keep in mind that the way this works is that Microsoft has created a shim on top of Chakra that exposes a V8 API. If V8 changes its API drastically (which it frequently does) this little experiment is basically over. There is only so much work people can do to keep up with a moving target. Barring NodeJS creating an abstract JS engine API that developers…
They should also have the option to use FireFox's engine as well. Who has the fastest JS core these days?
Why should a developer care about this? What does ChkraCore bring to the table that V8 doesn't ?