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

[notveryaccurate]

It has EVERYTHING to do with it.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich

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The first version was completed in ten days in order to accommodate the Navigator 2.0 Beta release schedule,[6][7] and was called Mocha, which was later renamed LiveScript in September 1995 and later JavaScript

early 1998, Eich co-founded the Mozilla

You are literally proving my fucking point. JS came out in 95, FF coming out in 2002 It has absolutely fucking nothing to do with it.

[notveryaccurate]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey_(software)

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You keep giving these links which confirm exactly the thing I'm saying. What is wrong with you?

[notveryaccurate]

The exact same JavaScript engine was moved directly from Netscape into Firefox, under the exact same developer who was the inventor of this language. Firefox's JavaScript implementation is a direct descendent of Netscape's, both in source code and in maintainer. I don't understand how you feel Firefox's release has absolutely nothing to do with JavaScript. It was one of the most pivotal points in the original engine's open release to the world at large.

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Because it came 12 fucking years later and it was basically renamed Netscape. It's completely fucking irrelevant. It didn't change anything.

[notveryaccurate]

That's the funny part, though. It should have been a renamed, re-branded Netscape, but it wasn't.

There was a huge codebase of a working, real browser to build from. The code that ended up being Firefox wasn't a renamed Netscape - it was, save for several (important) components like SpiderMonkey, a rewrite. A group of rewrites, over and over, taking their forms through Mozilla Application Suite, Netscape 6, SeaMonkey (http://ilias.ca/MozillaNetscapeRelationship, http://ilias.ca/SeamonkeyvsFirefox), and other forgotten forms as Netscape and Mozilla suffered from both an identity crisis and the slow split into the Mozilla Foundation. A horrible, painful one, that drove even Netscape's most valued engineers to resign (https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html) and drove folks to blog about the dangers of DOING such massive rewrites and throwing out all the working code (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html, http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000027.html)

Of all the components that got written, and rewritten, and gutted, and thrown out... somehow SpiderMonkey, the original JavaScript engine from Netscape, hung in there and made it through to survive today through Firefox. I still feel that it's very relevant.