Microsoft announced plans to open-source the JavaScript engine behind its Edge Web browser. Close. Latest News; ... Fla. Microsoft said it will open-source the core components of Chakra as ...

Microsoft will release the core components of its 'Chakra' JavaScript engine as open source in January 2016. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor Dec. 5, 2015 at 6:40 a.m. PT.

The security flaw, which was first discovered by Google's Tavis Ormandy, was found in the company's JavaScript engine. This internal component of Avast antivirus allows for JavaScript code to be ...

Microsoft last week revealed that it will release the core components of its Chakra JavaScript engine to open source as ChakraCore.It will be available next month on GitHub under the MIT license.

Microsoft will open up its Chakra JavaScript engine as an open-source project on GitHub next month. The code repository, called ChakraCore, will include the key components of Chakra engine used ...

Software giant Microsoft will open source the core components of its Chakra JavaScript engine used for its EDge browser next month. We expect ChakraCore to be used wherever these factors are ...