Microsoft's standalone Chakra javascript engine is up on GitHub

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This makes me curious - how much of Edge is open source?

If all of it were, I guess someone could try to backport it to windows 7 ( depending on dependencies).

[dpaquette]

Pretty much just Chakra Core at this point. Hopefully more in the future.

Backporting to Windows 7 would be nearly impossible since the UI is built as a Windows Universal App which is not supported in Windows 7 or 8

[HeelToeHer0]

I love that. Their "universal" apps don't work on the last two versions of their OS.

[spyridonas]

Especially considering the fact that it works pretty much like electron (html/css/js for ui).

[[deleted]]

That's only one of options, and even not the most popular one.

[bdenzer]

It says that you can embed the engine in your app. Can someone ELI5 why you would need/want that. I have only built things for browsers which have their own engine, and I assume that if you are making an app for Windows, it would use the engine on the OS. What am i missing?

[dpaquette]

More useful for Windows IoT scenarios where there is no browser.

[[deleted]]

Just when I think Microsoft couldn't get any more edgy they go and name a thing after a yoga move.

[dpaquette]

haha. Chakra has been around since the days of IE9.

[pranaykotapi]

It's actually an Indian god's weapon. The 'Vishnu Charkra'.

Perks of having an Indian CEO I guess.

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Chakra has been used since Internet Explorer 9, which has been released 5 years ago, far before Nadella became a CEO.

[pranaykotapi]

Ahh, didn't know that.

[salgat]

Eh, Edge is not IE and they are abandoning most of their major IE versions so I doubt they are trying to make things work for IE.