What does HackerNews think of ChakraCore?
ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API.
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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.
I am astonished at the omission of ChakraCore, open sourced by Microsoft 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 abandoned.
ChakraCore is definitely one of the most notable and significant implementations after the big three.
This is essentially a dead research project, but:
* ChakraCore lives on, even though the old Edge is dead. It has new maintainers that are not affiliated with Microsoft in any way [0]
* The time-travel APIs still exist [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...
Psst! They 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.