As you may have noticed, Microsoft has changed its attitude towards the open-source community in the past year.
For example, in recent months the company "opened" him Visual Studio code.
Today, the company went a step further by making ChakraCore, the JavaScript engine that the new program uses, freely available to developers browsing Edge on Windows 10.
The Chakra, as we mentioned above is the engine used for the implementation JavaScript. Αναπτύχθηκε από το μηδέν το 2008 και έχει την καλύτερη δυνατή συμβατότητα με το πρότυπο ECMAScript 6 σε σχέση με άλλες μηχανές, συμπεριλαμβανομένου και του V8 της Google.
Chakra is currently only used by the Edge browser in Windows 10, but will also be used to power Universal Applications for Xbox, Windows Phone and tablets.
ChakraCore will be available on GitHub within the month as a standalone JavaScript virtual μηχανή που θα δώσει τη δυνατότητα στους προγραμματιστές να την εφαρμόσουν σε δικά τους προϊόντα.
From January of 2016, Microsoft will allow external developers to contribute to the project through GitHub's applications. More details on future collaborations with developers who are interested will be announced 2016 principle.
It's an interesting — and impressive — move from Microsoft, a company that's used to keeping its code under lock and key. software her.
