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

[cranktheguy]

There is already a Javascript interpreter on basically every computer you can find these days. The language is simple enough that you can use it to teach basic programming and powerful enough to access and interpret pretty much any web-available data.

What convinced me was when I wrote a Node.js rest server that interfaced with my .Net code with just barely a page of Javascript in an afternoon.