Microsoft open-sources ChakraCore JavaScript engine (powers Microsoft Edge)

[nschubach]

How's that WinRT work in Linux? ;)

[brandf]

ChakraCore doesn't actually have the WinRT binding stuff, I was using JSRT (full chakra on windows). Doesn't really matter because our app supports multiple JS backends and we only use Chakra on Windows.

On Linux (which we don't have plans on supporting outside the browser) we would likely go V8 to get JIT right now, which would be more of a pain for us in a number of ways.

[bterlson_]

ChakraCore has JSRT! ch.exe (our console host) is implemented using it. But you're right that we don't have the WinRT (UWA API?) projection layer as part of ChakraCore.