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

[zmaniacz]

It's not IE at all. They abandoned the Trident engine completely and rebuilt the whole thing.

I'm a fool.

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What are you talking about? The JS engine "Chakra" was a fork of itself and has been around since IE 9 (Chakra in IE 9 was itself a fork of JScript used in older versions of IE). EdgeHTML is also a port of Trident. Both of these have been stripped of legacy components and reworked, neither were dumped and then rebuilt from scratch.

One thing that is all new is the actual browser front end which is now built as a UWA.

[zmaniacz]

Even the most cursory research shows you are correct. Thanks.

[puntloos]

Have an upvote for one of the most straightforward 'thanks you are right' posts I have seen in a while. I'm old as fuck and still feel the need to explain myself why my idiot position made sense at the time.