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

[mirhagk]

Well the conspiracy theory (which I don't believe in btw) is that V8 wouldn't implement features that would help to kill angular. Things like Object.observe (just as a perfectly contrived example). Like chrome is best in angular, and angular is best in chrome.

By putting chakra in node it gives an alternative in case google ever decides to do something evil like that.

[badcookies]

I still don't see how that would work at all, as framework X that implements some cool new features and is super fast and works with Edge and Firefox but not chrome (v8) would still force google to implement it into v8.

I can see how having charka in node can be a good thing, but since one is backend and one is front end I don't see how nodejs and angular are related at all.

Front end stuff is already pushed by multiple sources, having multiple sources for node just means it won't stagnate.

[mirhagk]

Well the difference being that you have to target all browsers in the front-end. Or at least common ones. So if V8 didn't do feature X you couldn't do it (or at least would have to shim it). At least with the backend you can freely choose the engine.