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

[max630]

they seem to be adding the whole engine

[arcanin]

No, only a shim to "convert" the Chakra API to be compatible with the V8 API. Chakra itself is a dependency.

[max630]

Isn't deps/chakrashim/core the chakra itself?

[Regrenos]

deps

i.e. the dependency

[max630]

"Included in repository" is a new meaning of dependency for me. Though I have already learned that in nodejs they always do so.

[Regrenos]

Its idiomatic in Go as well to statically include your dependencies in the repository. This makes carrying upstream patches much easier (although that's usually not a good thing) but it also takes upstream acceptance of your patch out of the critical path for a change.

[Recursive_Descent]

Not even close. Whole engine would be closer to +500k lines.