Google announced overnight the release and open-sourcing of a trio of tools designed to help JavaScript developers. Written by Chris Duckett, Contributor Nov. 8, 2009, 3:34 p.m. PT ...

At JSConf in Florida today, Microsoft announced that it is open sourcing Chakra, the JavaScript engine used in its Edge and Internet Explorer browsers. The code will be published to the company's ...

Now that the library is open source, developers can use it to build and design Windows-like Web applications for other browsers and platforms, including Chrome, Firefox, Android, and iOS.

In non-JavaScript observations, GitHub highlighted No. 3, dotnet, which "shows that more open source projects are developing apps for Windows," and No. 6, machine-learning, which "is gaining momentum.

Chakra is the engine used to execute JavaScript that was developed from scratch in 2008 and has the most compatibility with the ECMAScript 6 standard over other engines, including Google’s V8.

We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsoft announced it is open-sourcing Chakra, the JavaScript engine that powers its Edge Web browser.

Microsoft continued its historic open source efforts by announcing it will donate the technology behind its Chakra JavaScript engine to the community -- and solicit outside help in making it cross ...

Microsoft intends to release the self-contained parts of its Chakra Javascript engine, used in the Edge web browser that debuted in Windows 10, as open source in January next year.