“This pull request enables Node.js to optionally use the ChakraCore JavaScript engine,” Guarev Seth, Microsoft principal product manager for Chakra, said in a blog post.

The N-API effort also aims to ease support of multiple back-end JavaScript engines. Last year, Microsoft came up with a plan to swap out Google’s V8 engine with Microsoft’s ChakraCore engine.

Microsoft Gaurav Seth, principal program manager lead at Microsoft, announces at the JSConf US Last Call conference on Friday that the Chakra JavaScript engine will be an open source project. In a ...

Microsoft wrote the Chakra JavaScript engine from scratch, using the most current Java technologies to give Edge a major performance boost over the aging Internet Explorer line. At the JSConf show ...