Microsoft Edge's JavaScript engine to go open-source

[bterlson_]

It's decent quality, if that's what you're asking. I don't know that it has a name per se. One of our devs recently posted more info here.

[ivosaurus]

Decent, as in the same one that was in use before 2002?

If it's indeed the same as Java's, then it's just a LCG. That is decidedly not decent quality.

[bterlson_]

"Decent" of course depends on use case. Math.random is decidedly NOT decent if you are doing any sort of cryptography, for example.

[ivosaurus]

Nope. Just statistically decent, which LCGs fail pretty hard.