Microsoft opens its JavaScript engine – New Technology

       

With the browser Edge in Windows 10, Microsoft is trying to do away with their bad reputation when it comes to browsers by unscrewing the performance and monitor standards for the Web. From next month will further the browser’s JavaScript engine Chakra will be released under an open license. This means that anyone who wants to can download the source code to Chakra and develop it further.

JavaScript is a popular language for writing applications to be run directly in the browser. In recent years, language has also become more common to write programs that run on servers or embedded connected systems. It is in the latter two applications like Microsoft now hopes to compete with Google’s JavaScript engine V8 that has long since been licensed as open source.

Microsoft announced the news that the company plans to share Chakra in a blog post this weekend. By opening its engine, Microsoft can more easily collaborate with more to develop it and adapt it so that it works more places. According to the blog post, the company plans to create a community around the development, together with Intel, AMD and Node Source. The latter company develops software and tools for developers who use JavaScript.

Microsoft has developed Chakra since 2008 and except in the browser Edge used For instance, for running JavaScript in the company’s cloud service, Azure, Windows 10, on the Xbox and its phones. Developer John Edelstam, which arranges JavaScript Conference Nordic.js, think it is great that Microsoft is opening its engine, but he does not believe that it will have major consequences in the short term.

- There is nothing I have personally been waiting for, but it’s exciting for JavaScript as the language that will more engines, he said.

Han hope that greater competition will accelerate the development and the new features of the language will come into practical use faster.

- In this way, it is interesting to have more options that are backed by large software company with the resources, says John Edelstam.

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