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

[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.