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ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API.

64 mentions on Hacker News by 55 people: 11 stories, 53 comments · first 2016-01-13 · latest 2023-12-18

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  1. I thought it would be a fun weird project to make Servo work with MS' abandoned JavaScript engine: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore Of course it is written in C++ and you'd probably want a pure Rust browser. But it is sad seeing…
  2. The JS engine is open source: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore
  3. Not to forget the engine Charka: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore The only bit of the old Edge that had its source emancipated. It was/is? quite performant.
    comment by trackflak · 2023-05-04 · in Roll your own JavaScript runtime, pt. 3
  4. …browser, has in its repo a decent high-level description of how its JIT compilation is integrated: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/wiki/Architecture-... I found the source code to be quite readable too, last time I delved into…
    comment by comment500 · 2022-06-26 · in Crystal's Interpreter (2021)
  5. …as what Edge used to use, but sadly abandoned by them after they switched Edge to Chromium: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore . But it looks like it’s still chugging along as a community effort rather than being completely…
  6. …[1] as well as a full set of "regular" debugging APIs. * Related previous NH discussion: [2] [0] https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore [1] https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/blob/0fc6103461dac... [2]…
  7. …technically released the ECMAScript/JScript (definitely not JavaScript®) * interpreter, Chakra ( https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore ). * Trademark notice: JavaScript® is a registered trademark of Oracle America Inc.
  8. https://github.com/microsoft/ChakraCore
    comment by interrupt_ · 2020-09-01 · in Nessie – Lightweight Web Browser
  9. Relevant discussion about ChakraCore https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/issues/5865 TLDR ChakraCore is entangled in Microsoft's platforms like UWP, so it must be maintained, but forward development beyond maintenance is uncertain.
  10. Other chakras :) - https://github.com/microsoft/ChakraCore and https://github.com/chakra-ui/chakra-ui ;)
  11. …any more, but it was a perfect example of a bug which can't easily be feature-detected. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/ChakraCore/issues/1415
  12. They're using V8. https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/issues/5865#issue-38...
    comment by muizelaar · 2019-04-08 · in Chromium-based Edge preview builds
  13. …node and chakra core: https://github.com/nodejs/node-chakracore (which, btw, for now isn't dead: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/issues/5865 likely for the reasoning I mentioned above) I just don't buy it. I don't think easy…
    comment by no_wizard · 2019-02-27 · in We Need Chrome No More
  14. While it’s not EdgeHTML, they do have the code for ChakraCore out there. https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/issues/5865 I think EdgeHTML will continue to be used by Microsoft for various scenarios, just not in their Edge browser.…
    comment by wluu · 2018-12-12 · in Microsoft Edge
  15. So much wasted energy: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore RIP!
    comment by nashashmi · 2018-12-06 · in Goodbye, EdgeHTML
  16. it seems like a lot of people don't know this but the current Edge engine is Open Source. look here https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore
  17. …really solid JavaScript engine. And it's probably easier to embed than anything inside Chrome. ( https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore ) Hope they are still comitted to chakra.
  18. …direction, it's more likely than not to happen eventually. [0] https://github.com/dotnet/core [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS
    comment by Klathmon · 2018-10-26 · in Microsoft completes GitHub acquisition
  19. …better than Chrome's, who will be stuck with the cruft they've slowly built up over the years. [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore
    comment by Klathmon · 2018-10-03 · in Why I’m Worried About Google
  20. Chakra is Open Source: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore but I guess what you want is an "Edgeium" equivalent of Edge in the way that Chromium is the full (compilable) OSS version of Chrome.
  21. …https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore and so on... not to mention their own contributions elsewhere including Electron itself. I know some of their…
    comment by giancarlostoro · 2018-06-08 · in AMPstinction
  22. …https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-five-linux-contributor-mic... https://www.networkworld.com/article/3120774/open-sour
  23. > their JS engine https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore > their compiler Microsoft makes half a dozen compilers, for as many languages: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp…
    comment by will4274 · 2018-06-04 · in Hello, GitHub
  24. …(Chakra JavaScript Runtime team) | Seattle (Redmond) | Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/ Join Microsoft's JavaScript runtime team! Chakra is the JavaScript runtime that powers Edge and other…
    comment by mkaufman · 2018-04-02 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
  25. …(Chakra JavaScript Runtime team) | Seattle (Redmond) | Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/ The Chakra JavaScript runtime team works on Chakra (the JavaScript runtime that powers Edge and other…
    comment by hiteshk_msft · 2018-02-03 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)
  26. …(Chakra JavaScript Runtime team) | Seattle (Redmond) | Software Engineer | Full-time | Onsite | https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/ The Chakra JavaScript runtime team works on Chakra (the JavaScript runtime that powers Edge and other…
    comment by hiteshk_msft · 2017-12-02 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)
  27. …that it's a goal of them that they want to open source it, but it's not an overnight process. [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore [1] https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebGL
  28. …in Unix 'back in the day'[1]... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore
    comment by tim-- · 2017-10-19 · in Documenting the Web together
  29. It makes you wonder why they choose V8 instead of their own JavaScript engine https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore
    comment by pantalaimon · 2017-10-18 · in Napa.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript runtime
  30. AFICT you cannot build a like-for-like chakra.dll from ChakraCore due to https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore#using-chakracore The chakra.dll that comes as part of Windows/Edge includes the additional parts not included with ChakraCore…
    comment by satysin · 2017-03-26 · in Strengthening the Microsoft Edge Sandbox
  31. There's nothing stopping you from compiling https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore and checking if Chakra.dll matches that which is distributed with Edge.
    comment by repples · 2017-03-26 · in Strengthening the Microsoft Edge Sandbox
  32. The JavaScript engine is open source: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore
  33. If you include Safari/Webkit on that list then don't forget to also include Edge/Chakra[0] ;) [0] https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore
  34. …Riptide uses objects. [0]: http://v8project.blogspot.fr/2015/08/getting-garbage-collect... [1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/wiki/Architecture-Ov... [2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Sp...
  35. …is currently pretty light on details. For now there a bit more information on the roadmap page: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/wiki/Roadmap#12
    comment by runesoerensen · 2016-08-24 · in ChakraCore v1.2 Released
  36. MS Chakra JS VM is already open source: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore Like all high-performance JS VM's their JIT's already emit efficient machine code. If Google, Apple or MS could get JS running any faster they would've.
    comment by mythz · 2016-08-04 · in Visual Studio Code 1.4
  37. …reused for benchmarking/profiling). A large test suite[1] that covers behavior already exists. [1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/tree/master/test
  38. …to find that they still haven't switched to function table callbacks [1], like the CLR has. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/blob/7587147fac16654...
  39. …It looks like Microsoft is implementing a similar time-travel feature in Chakra: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/commits/TimeTravelDe...
    comment by cpeterso · 2016-03-02 · in Leaving Mozilla
  40. Linux support for ChakraCore is planned within the next few months: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/wiki/Roadmap We can see if that actually happens. Can you explain what makes you feel uncomfortable about the Node ecosystem? I…
  41. …updated the roadmap[1] to call out that JIT and more platforms are coming in future iterations. 1: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/wiki/Roadmap
  42. …except maybe as something Microsoft can offer for Azure customers that choose Windows Server. [1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/wiki/Roadmap
  43. …Yes, we have a way to disable jit. See the merged pull request by our super cool dev here: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/pull/4 . We have build configuration which produces daily builds without JIT as well:…
    comment by abchatra · 2016-01-13 · in ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open
  44. Hi Chakra Engineer here. It's a work in progress. You can see current work on the `linux` branch ( https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/tree/linux ). I believe we are targeting clang. It does not build yet. We will enable builds of…
    comment by dilijev · 2016-01-13 · in ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open
  45. …progress on these new diagnostics APIs, we plan to make them available in Chakra as well. From: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/wiki/Architecture-Ov...
    comment by jdmichal · 2016-01-13 · in ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open
  46. We changed the url from https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore to this, which points to the GitHub repo as well as containing more background info.
  47. Fixed by this: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/issues/70
    comment by abchatra · 2016-01-13 · in ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open
  48. …Look at prototype pull request in ChakraCore by one of our awesome engineer: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/pull/63
    comment by abchatra · 2016-01-13 · in ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open
  49. > ChakraCore > The MIT License (MIT) > Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Incredible! https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/blob/master/LICENSE....
    comment by vmorgulis · 2016-01-13 · in ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open
  50. It doesn't look like it builds yet. See https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/wiki/Roadmap .
    comment by JoshuaJB · 2016-01-13 · in ChakraCore GitHub repository is now open