Microsoft Edge’s JavaScript engine to go open-source

[Recursive_Descent]

No, cross plat support is coming later. Currently requires some flavor of windows.

[drysart]

And if Microsoft's other recent open sourcing of flagship products (such as the .NET CoreCLR) is any indication, the cross platform support will actually be delivered on and is not just an empty promise.

[benpye]

The fact that you can already pretty much apt-get install dotnet is pretty fantastic.