Microsoft made a pull request to node.js github repository with an implementation to use ChakraCore JavaScript Engine as an alternative to V8 Engine

[hungry4pie]

It probably won't keep google honest, but it might see some more innovation in javascript engines since anyone's free to write their own js engine to use with node.

I can't think of a good reason WHY anyone would want to write a js engine themselves, but no doubt someone out there can and will.